Lost elysium of the Cambridge Backs
One of Britain’s most celebrated views will soon be dramatically changed
Is cricket growing up and leaving home?
In many ways the sport is thriving, but there is danger ahead
The death of Britannia Agoraia
Deindustrialisation has done damage even beyond the realms of economics
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Giving Mozart a makeover
Mozart: The Salzburg Project (Warner)
Oxford elects
Meet the denizens of Oxford’s disenchanted garden currently competing for the university’s top sinecure
Dancing with ghosts
A journey into the ABBA: Voyage experience
Do feminists speak for all women?
To speak on behalf of women is not to speak for or over them
The Worlds of Marco Polo: The Journey of a Thirteenth-Century Venetian Merchant; Palazzo Ducale, Venice
For millennia all that was rare, exquisite, gorgeous and strange traversed the “Silk Road”
Why so few men take up the pen
With publishing now such a female-dominated industry, it’s no surprise that there are so few men writing fiction
Party in the U.S.S.R.
Shortages, queues and giant slogan-laden banners were the order of the day as the party faithful gathered
Power and authority
The development of British towns in the 17th and 18th centuries
