Untitled - Saskatchewan Winter Robert Newton Hurley 1969

I think there is something to this post about "vice signalling" on the right; Matt Walsh for e.g. can be quite funny and entertaining but his comments about the victims of shootings in Minnesota are just cartoonishly unpleasant.

I think there is something to this post about "vice signalling" on the right; Matt Walsh for e.g. can be quite funny and entertaining but his comments about the victims of shootings in Minnesota are just cartoonishly unpleasant.

Brook didn't paint Cumbria much, but when he did, you just knew it'd be a drizzly mist

71 Whitney Drive, Stevenage 1966 Derrick Shorten newtownherts.weebly.com/whitney-driv...

Not managed to find the good (and active) art accounts on here yet so will post some stuff myself until I do - Vicarage in Winter, Ravilious

This is interesting. I agree that tax cuts per se shouldn't be a priority for Reform.

My favourite Brook

Proponents of the Leadbeater-Falconer assisted suicide bill are trying to bully the Lords into abandoning scrutiny of this train wreck. But they're running out of legislative time. My newest piece for @unherd.com unherd.com/newsroom/why...

Blogs of 2025: Our final blog of the year celebrated the 90th birthday of one of the finest modernist buildings in the country, the De La Warr Pavilion in Bexhill on Sea www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/blog/the-de-...

I wrote about wassailing: firstthings.com/wassailing-a...

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

St Thomas More, Hampstead 1969 Gerard Goalen www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/st-thomas-mo...

No surprise he's been poor against Australia when he's got all this going on at home.

I realised I never actually posted anything about what's in my book or why anyone would be interested, so here's a substack post about that: huwtd.substack.com/p/my-book-wh... #egyptology 🏺

Isokon Flats, Lawn Road 1934 Wells Coates www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/isokon-flats...

Discomfit them, O Lord, that trust to their own multitude and strength, And forget not that thou art even He, our God, Which destroyest wars from the beginning ... A haunting anthem, a petition of the Elizabethan Church in a time of fear and uncertainty. youtu.be/blzCXq1fZEU?...

Odeon cinema, Cherrydown Avenue, Chingford Mount 1935 (now demolished) Andrew Mather bit.ly/4lPv4iN

Finished copies!!! Aren’t they stunning?

The Caroline modernisation programme is troubling. The Firm could alienate its natural supporters while failing to mollify its critics | Niall Gooch unherd.com/newsroom/scr...

New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).

New on the Substack: "The detective story as literature: Dorothy L Sayers and Strong Poison" niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-detect... In which I discuss highbrow disdain for whodunits, among several other things, including the detective stories of Fr Ronald Knox (mostly fair to middling).

Doctor Who has always been political, but it's only in recent years that the BBC show's moral lectures have become suffocating | Niall Gooch

High and Over, Amersham 1929-31 Amyas Connell bit.ly/3GGtQI5

Don’t forget about our spring sale! For the week there will be 20% off our Mini Guide range. Our A5 sized Mini Guides each explore the modernist buildings of a particular location or architect. See the full range here www.modernism-in-metroland.co.uk/mini-guides....

"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...

"It is good that young men prize stamina and skill. It is good that they want to push boundaries and impose themselves on the world and impress girls." My latest at the @thespectator1828.bsky.social on the case for teenage boys. www.spectator.co.uk/article/in-d...

I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.

I found this blogpost very interesting and broadly persuasive, even as an old books romantic. It's notable, for example, how the use of the use of genetics in archaeology is shining a new light on old arguments about the size of population movements.

Part 2 of this series, The Case Of The Implausibly Slow Inspector. niallgooch.substack.com/p/the-case-o... On a pleasant but unremarkable mystery, The Sussex Downs Murder.

“Acquire the Spirit of Peace and a thousand souls around you will be saved.” St. Seraphim of Sarov

And we most humbly beseech thee of thy goodness, O Lord, to comfort and succour all them, who in this transitory life are in trouble, sorrow, need, sickness, or any other adversity ... www.bbc.com/news/article...

"It is this glimpse of the pattern of shipboard life - the small community of men working together skilfully to achieve a mission - that holds part of the key to the film’s enduring popularity."

New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".

New on the stack, an essay on one of my favourite Agatha Christie bookshops, A Murder Is Announced. niallgooch.substack.com/p/nobody-kno... "Nobody Knows Any More Who Anyone Is".

"Don't forget your old shipmates". An appreciation of Master And Commander from a couple of years back. niallgooch.substack.com/p/dont-forge...

The King's respect and love for the Jewish people and the Jewish tradition is a joy to behold. It should be a cause of great pride for those of us who are British.

Couple of pieces I think about a lot. One from the New York Times in 2018. In Praise of Mediocrity. www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/o...

Food £200 Data £150 Rent £800 Whimsical household inventions £3,600 Utility £150 someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my dog is mad at me

Ladybird Artists Advent Calendar, window 18 ‘Christmas Time’ Artist: Ronald Lampitt

"A Disappearance". One of my ghost stories. niallgooch.substack.com/p/a-disappea...

A Misty Frosty Morning. 1°C and no breeze. Wrens in bushes.

A moment of calm on Blakeney quay this morning

The doldrums of a 10+ year old marriage and kids who are growing up really do limit how self-focused adults can be. That’s a bad reason to blow up your life, and a good reason to let go of therapeutic selfishness. Good column:

My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

My latest at The Spectator: Against the new genre of divorce and adultery confessionals. www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-...

"The intention is clearly to make people...assume that without assisted suicide, we are all at high risk of an unpleasant death, pointlessly prolonged by dogmatic vitalist medical professionals. But this is not the case." My piece at @unherd on Dignity In Dying's posters. unherd.com/newsroom/ass...

Going to gradually link to all my Substack posts. "Paying the penalty for the folly of kings" - a reflection on Hilary Mantel's Cromwell trilogy and HFM Prescott's The Man On A Donkey, both of which deal with the English Reformation. niallgooch.substack.com/p/what-mante...

"The intention is clearly to make people...assume that without assisted suicide, we are all at high risk of an unpleasant death, pointlessly prolonged by dogmatic vitalist medical professionals. But this is not the case." My piece at @unherd on Dignity In Dying's posters. unherd.com/newsroom/ass...

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