George Steiner
A very English intellectual
For all his European frame of reference George Steiner stayed in Cambridge for a very good reason
Remembering George Steiner
Today Arendt is only read by academic cultists – Steiner by the public
The authorities are inept sheriffs of social media
Politicians, the police and the judiciary should stop trying to control a landscape they do not understand
From El-Alamein to Ukraine
How has the nature of warfare changed since World War Two?
The problem with Rachel Reeves’s pension pretensions
Bigger funds are not the key to effective investments
AI is a terrible poet
It has no sense for true meaning and beauty in language
The future that never came
Post-war London was saved from a modernist masterplan
The predictability of subverting expectations
What to expect when you’re expecting your expectations to be subverted
After Covid
English towns have a long road to economic recovery
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Justin Welby should resign
If sin means anything, how can the Church of England hierarchy be maintained?
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
British politicians are turning me into a libertarian
Their incompetence and presumptuousness is the best advert individualists have
