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Jun 14, 2013

Harry Eyres: Don’t despair on climate change

Expecting any sort of altruism from politicians has come to seem a tall order, but it is absolutely necessary and not impossible

Jun 7, 2013

Harry Eyres: The essence of artistry

The communication of the deepest and strongest emotions requires both technique and ‘duende’

May 10, 2013

Harry Eyres: Our eyes on the storks

The human-stork ‘convivencia’ points the way to reconciling the man-made with nature

May 3, 2013

Harry Eyres: In touch with my poetic side

The popularity of the book group is in part nostalgia for the coffee-house and the salon

Apr 26, 2013

Harry Eyres: Art from the ashes

War-ravaged Darmstadt has overcome its mid-century trauma and is once again a place of surprising beauty (in parts) and, above all, of peace

Apr 19, 2013

Harry Eyres: Soundbites v serious science

Many of the difficulties in communication between scientists and the media are tonal

Apr 12, 2013

Harry Eyres: The mark in every face I meet

A plea for compassion and sharing, from a writer who’s not ashamed to take the bus

Apr 5, 2013

A measured look at climate change

We still have no way of accurately forecasting weather more than a fortnight ahead

From BOOKS Mar 22, 2013

How to defy the supermarket gods

‘I have experimented with using supermarkets less; and the less I use them, the better I feel’

Mar 8, 2013

Players in a game of diplomacy

Cliburn and Gagarin were victims as well as heroes of the cold war they helped to thaw

From ARTS Mar 1, 2013

Let the fields of the mind fall fallow

What a mind-changing, even mind-opening experience being ill, or allowing yourself to be ill, can be

Feb 15, 2013

Where the customer is not king

Unlike the maniacally smiling baristas of Pret A Manger, Vienna’s café waiters are permitted eccentricities

Feb 8, 2013

Minor details, major achievement

Can unassuming paintings of church interiors, placid cows and clearings in the woods be religious at the same time?

ABOUT HARRY

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).

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.

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Expecting any sort of altruism from politicians has come to seem a tall order, but it is absolutely necessary and not impossible

The relatively closed form of email ends up generating more problems than it solves

Bonnefoy is clear about what he is seeking: it is the ‘first, preconceptual experience of the world’

Casting a pall of gloom over people seems a risky way of bringing about economic recovery

The communication of the deepest and strongest emotions requires both technique and ‘duende’

The human-stork ‘convivencia’ points the way to reconciling the man-made with nature

The popularity of the book group is in part nostalgia for the coffee-house and the salon

War-ravaged Darmstadt has overcome its mid-century trauma and is once again a place of surprising beauty (in parts) and, above all, of peace

Many of the difficulties in communication between scientists and the media are tonal

A plea for compassion and sharing, from a writer who’s not ashamed to take the bus

I suspect that ‘moving on’ partly means turning one’s back on what is unbearable

We still have no way of accurately forecasting weather more than a fortnight ahead

Mary Beard is an engaging guide to ancient Greece and Rome. A review of ‘Confronting the Classics’, by Mary Beard

‘The change Dudamel had achieved with this group of young players was not just musical; the transformation went deeper’

‘I have experimented with using supermarkets less; and the less I use them, the better I feel’

Cliburn and Gagarin were victims as well as heroes of the cold war they helped to thaw

He was being mourned not as a fine and versatile actor, but as a national treasure, indistinguishable from the character he played

What a mind-changing, even mind-opening experience being ill, or allowing yourself to be ill, can be

Unlike the maniacally smiling baristas of Pret A Manger, Vienna’s café waiters are permitted eccentricities

Can unassuming paintings of church interiors, placid cows and clearings in the woods be religious at the same time?

ABOUT HARRY

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