What rewilders don’t understand about the British countryside
It comes without warning. A black shape shearing out of the sky, a clap of wings like a sail breaking. The…
Bored of Banksy
Another Banksy appeared this week, this time on the flank of the Grade I-listed Royal Courts of Justice in London. Naturally,…
Life isn’t good for everyone in the Cotswolds
On paper, Charlbury is everything the Cotswolds is supposed to be. Stone cottages the colour of anaemic butter. Sash windows…
Church of England abuse survivors have been failed – again
The Church of England’s abuse Redress Scheme was set up to help survivors of abuse, but a serious data breach…
The Norman Conquest wasn’t a disaster for England
For a certain kind of amateur historian there is a moment, fixed in the imagination, endlessly revisited: it is still…
Unesco status is killing Bath
Last month, the Trump administration announced that the United States would once again withdraw from Unesco, the Paris-based UN cultural…
The Cotswolds is a Potemkin England
Have you heard the one where the vice president of the United States and a lesbian former talk show host…
