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Harry Eyres established the FT’s Slow Lane column, which celebrates the creative use of down-time, in January 2004. Before that in a varied journalistic career he was a theatre critic and arts writer for The Times (1987-1993), wine editor of Harpers & Queen (1989-1996), wine columnist for The Spectator (1984-1989) and the first and so far the only Poetry Editor of The Daily Express (1996-2001). He has written on wine and food, travel, theatre, literature and music for most of the UK’s leading newspapers.
In addition to his journalistic work Harry Eyres is a published poet, editor of LSE Environment, the newsletter of LSE’s Centre for Environmental Policy and Governance, and teaches London theatre for a consortium of American universities. He wrote the Beginner’s Guide to Plato’s The Republic for Hodder & Stoughton’s Beginner’s Guides to Great Works series. He was born in London in 1958, read English at Cambridge University and holds the Diploma de Estudios Hispanicos from Barcelona University and an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Evaluation from LSE. - -
Does science need religion?
What religion can bring to science, which illuminates many things but cannot tell us what they mean, is passion and community, writes Harry Eyres
Unnatural disaster
Harry Eyres finds evidence that New Orleans was a human and political disaster. Understanding the nature of the Big Easy’s wounding helped him understand the wounding of the world
Plodders, pride and prejudice
Instilled into Etonians is an unquestioning belief that they have a right to rule the world, and this is both wonderful and dangerous, says Harry Eyres
Art for body, mind and soul
Art is profoundly healing, as Harry Eyres finds out after attending a friend’s chamber opera and a dance theatre
One thing at a time
The findings of a group of researchers from Stanford University showing that multitasking is a sure recipe for incompetence are not surprising at all to Harry Eyres
High marks for Haitink
The 80-year-old maestro has a gift of breathing air into orchestral textures. Each layer of sound is clear and differentiated, rather than coalescing into a muddy mass, writes Harry Eyres
Catching Fire
A Harvard professor of biological anthropology argues that the evolution of the human race can only be explained by cooking, writes Harry Eyres
Light and dark shades of green
The recent death of flamboyant environmentalist Edward Goldsmith has made Harry Eyres think about the past 40 years of the Green movement – where it came from and where it might be going
A gash in the fabric of ages
Harry Eyres takes a stand against a plan to drive a motorway through and above the undervalued vineyards of the Mosel
The richness in Tuscan villages
Harry Eyres revisits the region where he spent summer 30 years ago and realises that the warmth of a greeting can mean more than the splendour of an escutcheoned doorway
