Archive - The Eye of the Beholder

Time to charge the world for our Art?

Should Labour reverse two decades of free entry to our leading galleries for tourists?

Jul 2 •

May 2025

Jim, Nye and Dick - Labour's secret farmers

Keir Starmer's massive fall-out with Britain's farmers might have seemed very odd to Labour leaders of the '50s and '60s

May 18 •

Eighty years later - and still there are those who deny the truth

The VE Day celebrations are already under way for the 80th time, but the other day I read - right here on Substack - somebody undermining the truth of…

May 5 •

April 2025

Why is Cambridge apparently the epicentre of sundials?

Apr 30 •

March 2025

I'm worried about eggs...

Not the silly worry some people have that they might be bad for you, I'm worried there might not be enough eggs to go round.

Mar 9 •

February 2025

My date with a bird in Hackney

But my wife understands...

Feb 27 •

January 2025

Tough egg, with a soft centre...

.... will America's modern-era Raymond Chandler ever make it big in Britain?

Jan 27 •

December 2024

Reflections on the privileges of life as a part-time Londoner

Dec 20, 2024 •

October 2024

Can you re-house an elderly museum exhibit?

After cats and dogs, now it is old heritage items looking for a 'forever home' as cash runs out

Oct 25, 2024 •

September 2024

Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Phantom Letter Writers

The great detective is a global icon - but surely everybody knows he is just a work of fiction?

Sep 2, 2024 •

July 2024

A French civil war, now largely ignored by Paris, almost fractured the nation's fraternité

Jul 30, 2024 •

How a hidden gem among the UK's 3,200 museums appeals to the on-line generation

Jul 17, 2024 •

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