Happy new year
Chaque génération, sans doute, se croit vouée à refaire le monde. La mienne sait pourtant qu’elle ne le refera pas.
Category: For itself
Monologues above a million solitudes
The 2019 Parliamentary Election will surely be a turning point in the UK’s history, but how much has the country
‘Tenderness is the most modest form of love’
Yesterday, Olga Tokarczuk gave her Nobel Lecture at the Swedish Academy, which awarded her the 2018 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Don’t listen: look
People gathered at the John Pat Peace Place fire, Songs for Peace 2019. Photo: Marg Bertling (Big hART) It’s been
Up to us
Last night, I got an email from a friend asking me to support a campaign to change politics in Britain.
The fanatic within
At a time when the lamps are once again going out, not only in Europe but across the world, I’ve
The resonance of history
About 40 years ago, I found a small treasure in a secondhand bookshop—an old copy of Clarendon’s History of the
Relieved of duty
Today, I turn sixty. Such anniversaries are foreseeable, and this one’s long presence on my personal horizon was a reason
Holding on to democracy
Yesterday I was asked why I accept the result of the 2016 referendum in which a majority of English and
‘The spirit is gone’
Every month for almost 20 years, a memo about cultural policy and administration has been sent by email from the
