Jon Neale
Jon Neale is a Birmingham native who writes about cities and buildings. He tweets at @JonNeale
The beauty and richness of Brum
Richard Vinen offers a rewarding portrait of ordinary lives and increasingly mediocre politicians
Our attitude towards MPs is inconsistent
We hate career politicians, but we want politicians to focus entirely on their career
Newspeak
Language, landscapes and level crossings — is there nothing we can’t diversify, if we only dare to try?
Eroticism contra porn
Sex scenes should be salvaged from hardcore pornography
Here be flagons
The temperance campaigners realised that a picture can achieve more than a thousand words of argument
Making a miserable meal of mythbusting
The writing is laced with the sins of myth-making: boring, trite, incoherent, lazy and unfunny
The new men’s rights movement
For gender-critical feminists, TRAs can sometimes feel like MRAs with a modern twist
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
The first futurist
There is more to Daniel Defoe than Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe