The Special Relationship shows increasing signs of fatigue from Trump’s kicks and punches. His state visit to the Island Kingdom is off again, the reason…
Posts published by “David Yearsley”
That the world is in desperate shape was hardly news when, against the expectations of many, 2018 rolled around not long ago. Fires scorched the…
Farinelli was perhaps the biggest and brightest star of his or any other time, and so it’s only right that at the ripe old age…
The dread sound of Fukushima hardly sets the joyous Christmas bell to ringing. But a recent disc bearing simply that name from the experimental jazz…
The famed nineteenth-century Swiss historian Jacob Burkhardt, author of the seminal The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy first published in 1860, enjoined true scholars to remain…
The glaciers were bigger then. I gained renewed appreciation for their scale two weeks ago when making the long climb by bicycle out of one…
Put a lacquered frame around something and hang it on the wall and that thing instantly becomes Art. Or a critique of Art. Or a…
For at least as long as people have talked about the weather, they have made music about it—from rain dances to pastoral symphonies, from the…
Seated on psychedelic Rings of Saturn beneath an arena night sky strewn with planets, stars and galaxies, and herself kitted out in glittering silver wig…