Horse Jumping
Hoorah for hurdles!
Celebrating the start of the jumps season
Whisperings of the cruel sea
Britten: Concertos (Orfeo)
Canals go national
Canals gave Britain a single national economy, one that connected resources, factories, population centres and ports
The dangerous excesses of breaking boundaries
There is a double standard on trans people and violence
The grand tour
Sex and the cities
Dumb, glum and zero-sum
British thinking has to value supply more than distribution
The ways of waterways
From travelling to trade, how Britons used water before canals
Don’t forget Armenia
Armenians, once the target of genocide, are under threat again
A matter of National concern
This year’s race will come close to destroying its magic
Don’t just do something, stand there!
Three new books resist the modern cult of busyness
How not to investigate the origins of Covid
Wuhan: How the Covid-19 Outbreak in China Spiralled Out of Control by Dali L. Yang
Google has a history problem
As much as we might wish that history had been different, virtue cannot grow from the soil of falsehood
