A much-loved public institution, The National Trust, is sadly suffering from self-harm. It seems as if not a week goes by without another embarrassing revelation about their descent into militant, self-righteous political correctness. The...
It’s safe to say that the last 365 days have been the among most tumultuous in living memory. Worldwide lockdowns root tens of millions to their chairs or to their sofas and we’re asked...
One of the most important themes in Dickens’ ‘Hard Times’ is the sentiment that without compassion and imagination, one’s life will be empty. This is why we need literature – so we can learn...
I recently decided that I had finally had enough of my old car. Now, when I say, ‘old car’, I don’t mean it in the colloquial sense of ‘a car which I used to...
The young minds of today have been trained to focus on two aspects of life. The first being a focus on utility. Those of us in more recent generations have been told, from an...
Locked away for NYE, our increasingly irrelevant televisions were afforded life anew, taking centre stage to command the nation’s attention in a way unseen for years. At 11 o’clock, just an hour before the...
The nineteenth century is often called ‘the long nineteenth century’ by historians to signify that in many cultural ways it extended into the early twentieth. However, the mid 1900’s was one of the greatest...
In 1936, Victor Gollancz, founder and lead publisher of The Left Book Club, commissioned a young author by the name of Eric Arthur Blair, better known as George Orwell, to write a book on...
Advent has officially begun, and Christmas is beckoning. Christmas songs have been creeping onto our radiowaves for a few weeks, and DJs have to ponder whether to play the finest Christmas song of all...
It’s a strange old time for the Church of England. Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury and the most senior cleric in the organisation, has decided that this is a great time to announce he...
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