depresson
What does philosophy matter?
Philosophy is essential to our modern times, but it can also be dangerous
From austerity to the Swinging Sixties
Two books by David Kirby and Robyn Hitchcock are the equivalent of two albums’ worth of their authors’ holiday snaps
Some picture-perfect restorations
What we were seeing looked as good as it would have at its premiere
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
An orderly and civilised society
The biggest missing idea in British politics
The right-on, left-wing oppressors
A flaw in the design of academic studies makes the Left appear less authoritarian than the Right
Church visits and garden walks
From sumptuous architecture to delightful landscaping
The problem with petty scandals
They distract us from state failure and institutional decay
We have to rebalance civil society
To influence power, we must organise
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Podcasting while Britain burns
OK, OK, it’s all very deplorable, but Britain’s right wing bloggers still have to make a living
Murders for October
Tales from the gothic to the macabre
