Tony Dowson
Tony Dowson is a British writer. He tweets at @tonydowson5
How do the police not know the law?
They should stop investigating non-crimes
The police should use their powers
They have the right to remove protestors from roads
A book about nothing
A new collection from Adrian Chiles is certainly curious
4B and the futility of heteropessimism
Romance is painful but it is also possible
Bursting the myth of the “people’s war”
The Home Guard was not a nation-in-arms of the Jacobin kind
Only the truly privileged can be cultural relativists
It is easy not to judge appalling cultural practices from a distance
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
How H&W hit the iceberg
The opportunism and ineptitude that brought Belfast’s shipbuilding industry to its knees
Was the Budget stupid or malicious?
It is going to fuel youth unemployment
We are missing the important point on procurement
Systemic dysfunction is far more important than individual failures
People of Colour television
How to unpick the progressive contradictions of colour-blind casting
The Warburg refurbished
The institute used to feel intellectually introverted