L.S. Lowry
What Lowry saw in the sea
The philosophical side of the painter of “matchstalk men” adds to his charm
Oasis: the good boys of rock and roll
For guitar bands since punk, there’s been a tension between credibility and success
Forces of nature
Antonin Dvorak: Symphonies (Warner/Pentatone)
Autumn Reeves
It was a grim budget — but was it a necessary one?
Scruton and the roots of modern conservatism
Roger Scruton’s intellectual journey from Peterhouse, to a London college full of left-wing firebrands, from sophisticated intellectual soirées in Holland Park to a “bohemian blur” in Essex and a squalid Fleet Street pub
Have we been barking up the wrong tree?
Mark Rowlands believes that humans have a lot to learn from dogs
The strange death of the Office for Place
The demise of the Office for Place is a missed opportunity for housing
Tough on the causes of non-crime
A warm welcome back to non-crime hate incidents
No interest in national interests
The government is not putting Britain first
The public sector must reform or die
Too big to fail? It is too big to succeed
Liberal myths of the “good old ways”
Donald Trump’s foreign policy is not so very different from the Democrats’ imagined golden age of American leadership
The fables of Davos Man
Yuval Noah Harari has written another long book with little wisdom
