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 unromantic truth about tortured poets
Taylor Swift is idealising the grim realities of the lives of poets
Netherworld
The Dutch golden age could be anything but for the painters
Keir the coward
Narrowing the borders of permissible opinion will not solve Britain’s societal crises
Ghostbusted
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is heroically pointless
Must we keep failing universities alive?
History is full of institutions which could not justify their own existence
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
It’s the only one for me, nicotine
Once again, public health fanaticism is being prioritised over simple pleasures
Return of the referendum?
More direct democracy could be Europe’s only means of restoring political legitimacy
The right must learn from modern art
Marcel Duchamp’s rule-breaking provides real lessons for the right
Recasting the Crown for modern Britain
This progressive historian’s real charge against the monarchic institution is one of “complacency”
Why did Irish women vote No?
Tired of seeing women and mothers erased in law and policy, Ireland’s women sent a resounding message
