Issue 134, June 2021
In This Issue
Running out of Road
Protestant population decline and the political short-sightedness of unionism
Against Mystique
National character: English decorum versus dreamy Celtic fecklessness
The Authentic Voice
An examination of Italian cinematic neorealism and its artistic antecedents
Comings and Goings
The ‘isolated and outlandish’ domain of the doomed Big House gentry
Guinness and Chips
A diary of English high society that is high on snobbery but low on insight
Who’s for a U-turn?
Why unionists might be better off thinking, and doing, the unthinkable
The Inflection Point
Literacy in religious thinking may be necessary to tackle the world crisis
Rights and Wrongs
Hannah Arendt: witness and theorist of the advent of modern totalitarianism
A Righteous Flame
A gift for evoking simple things: light, heat, water, air; food and drink
Design and Build
Scenes of fleeting beauty captured in overlooked and unglamorous contexts
Boarding School Odyssey
Poems of youth recollected. informed by humour yet speaking of heartbreak
Blending In
Israel’s ‘first family’ reimagined in a hilariously conceived campus comedy
On the High Wire
John Berryman: a university poet in a society not much interested in poetry