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A writer, blogger, and web designer born in New York, educated in Argentina, Scotland, and South Africa, and now based in London. read moreWardourThe news from the West Country is that the principal apartment the gem of Wiltshire, Wardour Castle, is up for grabs. read moreDoom in BloomI love a good Doom, and the Salisbury Doom is one of the finest examples to have survived the Anglican Church’s iconoclasts. read more‘Solving’ Middle EuropeIn the midst of the First World War, the American architect Ralph Adams Cram made a plan to redraw the borders of central and eastern Europe. read moreBritish Columbia in LondonJust where the elegant Edwardian urbanity of Waterloo Place turns into Regent Street there is an edifice that announces itself as home to the “Agent General for British Columbia”. read moreThe Palais de TokyoIn the early 1930s the City of Paris decided the Musée de Luxembourg had become too small to continue as the city’s gallery of contemporary art. read moreUnderstanding UndsetSigrid Undset is doubtlessly among the twentieth century’s greatest writers, even though her main work is set in the fourteenth century. read moreLady DayToday marks the Archangel Gabriel s appearance to the Blessed Virgin Mary announcing that she would conceive and bear the child Jesus. read moreHaussmanhattanParis and New York are two cities radically different in design and character, but they are smashed together in this little project. read moreChartres DisfiguredThe city has unveiled plans to tear up the parvis in front of the ancient cathedral and replace it with a modernist “interpretation centre”. read moreArticles of Note: 11 December 2019Structural problems in British society, cultural achievement or sexual freedom (never both), and why American secular liberalism isn t secular at all. read moreArticles of NoteRestoring Britain s constitution, the next Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and why liberalism s critics and defenders argue past one another. read moreDublin in the Common MarketA full decade before Ireland joined the E.E.C., cartoonist J.M. McCarthy filed this vision of the Irish capital s cosmopolitan future in a 1962 issue of Dublin Opinion. read moreRoots and Permanent Interests The forms of government, social structures, and ideologies are only the outer garments that states and peoples wrap in during their history. J.R. von Salis on De Gaulle. read moreDolosseThe oddly shaped concrete forms that are dropped together to form breakwaters and prevent erosion have a name of Afrikaans origin. read moreTen BooksI have been challenged by a friend to post the cover of ten books I love — no explanation, no review, just the cover. read moreObservationsAll those interested in the history of the workers’ struggle would have enjoyed a letter to the editor printed in last week’s Observer. read moreThe Steps of the ThroneFrom Irish peers to retired bishops, a curious assembly of individuals have the right to sit on the steps of the throne in the House of Lords. read more Get me ze Führer! The British are, of course, obsessed with the Nazis. This is partly thanks to the many really quite good (and eternally rewatchable) war films produced during the 1950s and 1960s. read moreThe French Way of WarI’ve been reading Lartéguy recently so was intrigued to hear of another French writer formed by his military experience, Pierre Schoendoerffer. read moreChampagne and the WorldI’ve often said that champagne and the Catholic faith are the only two universally applicable things in the universe – appropriate for births, deaths, good times and bad, early, late, or a mundane afternoon. read moreChalloner s HouseAfter a perfect breakfast on Saturday morning I decided the three-and-a-half miles home from St Pancras were best managed on foot and happened to stumble upon No. 44, Old Gloucester Street. read moreAn Hollandic HovelI can easily imagine getting a lot of writing done while listening to LPs of baroque music through a haze of cigarette smoke in a garret like this. read more1950s Ireland, the Church, and the ArtsIn the latest Irish Arts Review, artist and Aosdána member Alice Hanratty condemns today s easy notions of the repressive Church-dominated Ireland of the 1950s. read more

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