Posts by Toby Guise
Friday, 22 March 2019
A hymn to Bayswater
In Graham Greene’s 1935 short story, A Little Place Off The Edgware Road, a man – Craven – stalks the..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 20 July 2018
The ancient discipline of pilgrimage reimagined in the modern day
Contemplative travel may not be an obvious component of the modern world. Yet from Santiago de Compostella to the byways..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 15 June 2018
How Eton ruined The Fourth of June
In a country as famed for its idiosyncrasy as England, the Fourth of June still stands out. Eton College’s open..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 22 September 2017
Music on the Gulf of Poets: Suoni dal Golfo
The village of Lerici on Italy’s Ligurian coast has left an indelible mark on the Romantic imagination. Wagner came here...
By Toby Guise
Thursday, 14 September 2017
To understand the CST's anti-Semitism report, watch 'Meet the Parents'
This week has seen publication of the most detailed survey yet of contemporary attitudes towards the Jewish community in the..
By Toby Guise
Monday, 4 September 2017
Me, me, me: the West is sinking in a sea of self-pity
In Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight, a husband manipulates his rich wife into thinking that she is going insane. Fast-forward..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 25 August 2017
The CPS is doing its bit for a British Charlottesville
Watching the breakdown of civil order in America, we ask ourselves: could it happen here? The initial answer is no...
By Toby Guise
Tuesday, 22 August 2017
Russia has been manipulating western culture for decades
Three stories have defined the summer. First, the “Google Memo”, in which an engineer was fired for presenting a statistical..
By Toby Guise
Friday, 21 July 2017
The Palio di Siena: Equestrian glamour at its finest
Local people find original ways to prove themselves. In England, these are typically mild – such as chasing a rolling..
By Toby Guise