British Rail
Beeching’s brutal legacy
The wounds of our lost railways still linger
What’s ugly, basic and has no walls?
The ExploreStation initiative has produced a nowhere-design which serves nobody
Back to the future
The new Great British Railways should abolish the garish sweet shop designs of today’s trains and look to the glorious liveries of the past
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
Not a dull phrase
Ethel Smyth: 2nd sonata &c (Delphian)
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
The definitive Brexit book—for now
Shipman captures the compelling drama of Britain’s greatest peacetime political crisis since the People’s Budget
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
A wealth of glorious objects and images
A new book about the discovery of classical sculptures and frescoes is itself a real treasure
They call it Poppy love
Poppy is, simply, a dog who knows what she wants
On cockroaches and cancellation (w/ James Dreyfus)
How ideology is spoiling the arts
Belle époque on a plate
The Goring offers a level of enchantment seldom found in the environs of Victoria Station
Sports inequity
Modern academia wants us to believe six impossible things before breakfast
The Age of Coles
The former vicar is perfectly suited for the Starmer years
