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Letterhole Diary – August 2018
Welcome to the August edition of the ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
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England and the Jews: From invitation to expulsion
In the eleventh century, English Jews and gentiles lived together peacefully. By the end of the thirteenth, the entire Jewish population had been expelled. What went wrong for England’s Jews?
Little Letterhole: Remembering the Prague Spring
ON 20 AUGUST 1968, half a million Warsaw Pact soldiers swarmed into Czechoslovakia. Within 24 hours, the whole country wasContinue Reading
To beat pollution, get the cars out of London
London is hideously polluted. To end this growing crisis, and improve the city’s quality of life, we need to get the cars out, and the cyclists and pedestrians in.
The legitimisation of Tommy Robinson
Tommy Robinson is an unremarkable racist, a bloke-in-the-pub with an outsized platform – we can blame the BBC for mythologising him into a working-class hero.
Letterhole Diary – July 2018
Welcome to the July edition of a series of monthly ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
Football, food and Fiat: A post-industrial pilgrimage to Turin
There are plenty of reasons to visit Turin: fine food and drink, fabulous Alpine vistas and a post-industrial vibe. But there’s also the monument to Grande Torino, a unique piece of football heritage.
Little Letterhole: We’ll miss the United States when it’s gone
DONALD Trump was full of praise for his Finnish counterpart Sauli Niinistö this week. ‘I enjoyed being with you aContinue Reading
World Cup 2018: Whither Africa?
Africa should be a continent on the rise, but in the 2018 World Cup not a single team has qualified from the group stage. With an enviable pool of talent, what’s behind this failure?
Letterhole Diary – June 2018
Welcome to the first of a new series of monthly ‘Letterhole Diaries’, for all the thoughts and stories that aren’t worth a full blog post, and a summary of some of the month’s biggest events.
