Fountain Pens
Pen pusher
My fascination with fountain pens
A Christmas plea for pen and ink
In praise of the small features of civilisation
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
The magic of the original stubbornly refused to rise from the dead and save the movie from mediocrity
Cities of the mind
19th century English towns live on in our collective imagination
When the music stopped
A reflection on the inexorable decline of arts education and the rise of knee-jerk politics and managerialism
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
Imagine there’s no Gove
Who’s in the room matters, and there were some which would have been better off without Michael Gove
Sophocles’s lack-of-foresight saga
Families will feud, from the BC era to 2024
Gambling gifts
New reports on Labour and political donations miss the point
My “state of the nation” book
England’s Mean Unpleasant Land: How the Tories, Trump and TikTok Screwed Up Britain
How Roman women were victimised twice
The victims of abuse could also be degraded by historians
Landfill indie remembered
A Golden Age? It was barely a Plastic Age
Portugal and the missing goats
The roots of environmental disasters can be odder than they look
