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The walls are crumbling … but oh so slowly
(7 minute read) Tribal enmity still stalks the streets of Northern Ireland, but Maddy Fry finds signs of a less fraught future on the horizon.
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Andy Warhol and the art of letting go
(2 minute read) The temptation to nostalgia should usually be resisted, says Nicole Law.
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Epitaph for a single woman
(5 minute read) Adam Brocklehurst examines the single life in fact and fiction.
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Where is the international outrage as Myanmar burns?
(4 minute read) World leaders are silent or impotent as barbaric generals lead the country to a humanitarian catastrophe, says Benedict Rogers.
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The reluctant admiration of genius
(4 minute read) Adam Brocklehurst offers a starkly honest review of the exhibition Lucian Freud: Real Lives at the Tate Gallery in Liverpool.
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Tolkien’s formative years in Birmingham … a conversation with William Sherwood
New Conversational Video ... Sean Organ interviews William Sherwood - the Education Secretary of The Tolkien Society.
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Feminism’s last battle
(12 minute read) Abigail Favale untangles the strands of a constantly evolving debate which risks turning into an Armageddon moment for feminism.
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Love, loss and … literature
(6 minute read) From Africa to England - Sean Organ reveals the backstory of the great author J. R. R. Tolkien and considers how much influence it might have had on his writing.
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Magna Carta – a very modern charter
(6 minute read) Edward Kendall finds surprisingly relevant lessons from one of Europe’s greatest historical documents.
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Lessons of eternity
(6 minute read) Jasmine Jones finds spiritual nourishment for pandemic times in a poem composed over a millennium ago.
