There's little else that people are talking about. In drivetime phone-ins in Lothian, bowling clubs in surrey, and all-night kebab shops in Islington, my first-hand experience is that people are… (View Post)

Years of those Pink Panther films have always ruined the seriousness of the Dreyfus affair for me. The name just now always makes me think of the long-suffering Commissioner Dreyfus, having an eye-po… (View Post)

Help ! I'm being ambushed by centre-right opponents of order ! ;.) More seriously, I think the classical idea of metron has a lot going for it. Order as harmony , rather than grids and grinding … (View Post)

The Belly of Paris is full of marvellous descriptions of the food market in Paris - recommended. Germinal for the marvellous descriptions of mining and working-class life there. (View Post)

I can't personally agree with the idea that the need for structure and order is the root of all evil, even though I would see myself broadly as a progressive rather than a conservative. To me th… (View Post)