Lincoln Allison
Ray of light for cricket’s lengthening shadows
A top-class domestic competition on free-to-air TV could rescue a fragmented sport marginalised by a series of disastrous decisions
The lost Eden of academia
‘It wasn’t difficult to persuade my son that academic life had lost its attractions’
A Europhile Brexiteer takes the Grand Tour
A journey through Europe was an opportunity to gauge reactions to the referendum
Now Or Never
“Fascinating and highly attractive possibilities open up post-Brexit if we stop panicking and use a bit of imagination.”
Same Difference
Both Donald Trump and Jeremy Corbyn are hostile to the establishment and oppose centrist politics — but the similarities between these apparent opposites go much deeper than that
Thoughts in Flanders Fields
“What should one make intellectually of the emotional contemplation of life on the Western Front? What is there to learn?”
Heaven and Hell in Campania
Despite the beauty of Southern Italy, a book studying the Camorra shows it is a place of contradictions
The Irish Free Variable
A trip through Ireland in the sixties showed a country full of contradictions – which still blight the landscape today
Playing With The Devil
When should sporting events be boycotted?
Pareto Humanity
The 19th-century Italian’s musings on political and economics hold surprising insights into what it is to be human
Will the green agenda be killed off by the pandemic?
‘Will the green agenda be killed off by the longer-term coronavirus recovery? Or might the closure of so much business, and the cleaner air that results from planes not flying and factories not working, give us extra years to gain control of our environment?’
Why T.S. Eliot still matters
His contemporaries’ reputations have diminished. But Eliot’s has grown: he is the poet who shows us what can be saved from the ruins
Music’s in the house
Rappers have found a role in lockdown: chronicling coronavirus with topical tunes. Most people, though, are rushing to the safety of the past