Lewis Oxley
Special Gems
Hendrickje Stoffels by Rembrandt
My special gem is the ‘Portrait of Hendrickje Stoffels’ by Rembrandt that hangs in...
Music Mavericks: Mark E Smith
Few musicians have been as enigmatic and irascible as the late Mark E Smith. As leader of post-punk renegades ‘The Fall’, for...
Fontaines D.C. a portrait of the artists as young men
Monday night at the LCR, the start of the working week, and I’m about to be hit by the raucous sound of...
Oxford proposes dropping Homer and Virgil
The University of Oxford’s Classics department are proposing to drop traditional authors of classical texts, including Homer and Virgil, in an attempt...
Music Snobs of the World: Disunite!
A common but complex problem existing in many music communities is the sheer levels of elitist snobbery some people display. As somebody...
Age restrictions on literature
Since the dawn of art and the invention of the printing press, there has been art and literature that experiments with the...