Canals
Drying up
How canals retreated into quiet obscurity
Full steam ahead!
How British canal boats steamed towards the future
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Water matters
British towns were built on rivers in more than one sense
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The problem with securonomics
A genuine strategy for increasing our economic security and resilience as a society would not start with the state
Matthew Parris and the illusion of independence
Those in flight from human dependency are the ones who cannot be realistic
The conspiracy illusion
Marianna Spring is looking at the finger, not the moon
Tragedy of the common spaces
It is sadly in keeping with the modern British mindset to prefer something good not to be done
Four women seers in a time of strife
Eilenberger’s design is to present philosophy outside the lecture theatre in its life-transforming power
Shrimp for breakfast in Sapporo
A culinary adventure with Japan’s finest seafood
Preaching to a dwindling choir
Once the default denomination of tycoons and the WASP elite, America’s Episcopal Church is struggling
When youth becomes period drama
The stakes feel very high when our younger years become the stuff of popular entertainment
The slick glide through the institutions
When values are outsourced to third-party organisations, everybody suffers
Elgar’s excellence
Elgar: Symphonies (Halle/Oehms)
