John Wyver writes: The usual weekending miscellany of articles and videos that have engaged and interested me over the past week. The header image is Robert MacBryde's Still Life with Fish Head, 1947, usually with Manchester City Galleries but currently more
John Wyver writes: this week's links. That's it, that's the introduction - apart from an expression of thanks to those in my Twitter timeline for some great recommendations. • The bad guys are winning: read Anne Applebaum's more
John Wyver writes: despite, or because of, the disappointing compromise in Glasgow last night, the state of the world is no better this weekend than last, but instead of gloom-and-doom political pieces I thought I'd begin this week's list of more
John Wyver writes: this is the second of a series of posts, which began here, in which I am chronicling the making of our BBC Four documentary, Drama Out of a Crisis: A Celebration of Play more
As usual this a selection of articles and more that have engaged me recently; it is presented with my regular apology for not including appropriate thanks to those who alerted me to some of them. • Worse than a defeat: if more