Eric Gill
O blind new world
Behind modernity’s moralistic exhortations lies a cold-blooded mania for total control
Man’s best friend
Eric Gill was an awful man — but that doesn’t make his art any less brilliant
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
Bernard-Henri Lévy
France’s celebrity philosopher, war reporter and professional pessimist
Out of power for half a century
As the Conservatives face the prospect of a long spell in opposition, they must heed the lessons of their predecessors
The idea of the countryside
English rural life in theory and practice
Izzy Hardcastle
Ornament of the book-world
Worthy instrument
York Bowen, Willam Walton: Viola concertos (SWR Music)
The coming of age
On the anxieties and ambiguities of adulthood
Unionism has to wise up
In Northern Ireland, inaction is decline
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
No average Joe
“He looked like the Milkybar Kid but played like Clint Eastwood”
French lessons
Macron’s centrist coalition has not only led the country to paralysis, but is itself threatened with implosion
