Month: May 2020

• Government by narcissism

  Many people on social media have admitted to feeling immense, almost disproportionate anger at Cummings’s performance in the Garden of Number 10 yesterday. It has surprised them that they could…

  

• David Kynaston on VE Day

  There are many things I wish I had written. In my old life as a contemporary British historian, the first chapter of the wonderful David Kynaston’s definitive postwar history, Austerity…

• CovidSpring X: The Covid Summer

  Pslam 51 This translation is from the 1662 Book of Common Prayer and is used in Ivor Atkins’ English edition of the Miserere (published by Novello): Have mercy upon me,…