Auden’s Ode to Ecumenism | Georgia L. Gilholy
Born in York in 1907, and educated at Oxford, W. H. Auden was already a celebrated poet by his mid-twenties. In the midst of personal success and impending war in Europe, Auden emigrated to...
Category: Culture
The Church and Covid | Edward Gifford
If there is an organisation that should be prepared for a plague to sweep the earth it is the Church; in our case The Church of England. It is foretold in many parts of...
To Move Past Modernity, We Must Embrace Eternity | Charlie George
We have all, whether we have come to realise it or not, inherited a great tradition. Contained within this tradition is the wisdom of countless generations of our ancestors, whose answers to the most...
Fewer Websites, More Waterstones – A Defence of Physical Print | Ewan Gillings
In an age of the internet, online publications, and Kindles, the humble book appears to be an entity that has lost its place. Seemingly unable to compete with the practicality of the phone, the...
What Lockdown Has Meant for Femininity | Jennifer Mills
For those less inclined towards traditional femininity, lockdown has proved to be challenging for gender identity and self-realisation. But for those of us who aspire for a domestic, family-orientated role, it has given us...
What can Shakespeare’s Rome teach us about our own culture wars? | Harrison Pitt
Julius Caesar is not Shakespeare’s best-loved play. But as a work which features a malfunctioning political order and examines the roots of civil war, it should probably be regarded as his most immediately topical. Although it is...
Conservatives Should Champion Beauty and Physicality | Tom L.H Halliday
The legendary Spartans of ancient Greece are known to have recognised the importance of appearance in battle. Herodotus described how the Spartans spent time before the battle of Thermopylae grooming themselves meticulously. Spartan King...
Modernist Urbanism: The Untruths of Beauty and Utility | Adam James Pollock
In the philosophy of the modernist artistic movement, one statement pervades all conversation, decrying the thought that modernism is anything but beautiful: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder”. In architecture, the entire viewpoint...
Has Multiculturalism Failed? | Andy Myers
For as long as I can remember, multiculturalism has been lauded as a wondrous panacea for the ills of intolerance and insularity. We were told it would foster peaceful coexistence of people from diverse...
Covid Tour de Espana Part 2 | Edward Anderson
Day 16 – Friday 14th August – Carrer Dels Corredors After giving the lady a heart attack (I guess she had become so used to not having customers that the sight of one was...
