Chris Rogers
Lowering the Standard
A copy of the last-ever Evening Standard on a pub table in Holborn a few hours ago. Next week a new, Thursday-only publication will...
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Chris Rogers
Aug 55 min
‘The Years’ at the Almeida
What is a woman’s life, when remembered? Achievements, failures, gains, losses? What part does society play? And does the answer change...
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Chris Rogers
Apr 203 min
A most horrid flame; or, the fragility of culture
Footage this week of the old Copenhagen Bourse burning, complete with toppling spire, inevitably recalled Paris’s conflagration five...
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Chris Rogers
Apr 136 min
Britain’s High (Low?) Street
Oxford Street is, we are told, experiencing what has been described variously as a rebound, a recovery or a revival. The tatty American...
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Chris Rogers
Dec 31, 20232 min
The old and the new
This is the Lego 315-3 European Taxi, released in 1963 well before I was born and so with some claim to be my oldest set. Mum can’t...
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Chris Rogers
Feb 5, 20233 min
One photograph: A broadening
A young woman stands on the steps of a building; another, taller woman stands next to her. The clothes could be from any of the last few...
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Chris Rogers
Jan 15, 20233 min
To infinity and beyond
This week’s British mission to orbit domestically-built satellites from home soil, using a modified Boeing 747 to carry aloft a rocket...
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Chris Rogers
Jul 31, 20225 min
‘Patriots’ at the Almeida Theatre
For a powerful man to claim ‘I have the country’s best interests at heart’ is easy; assessing whether he is right is rather harder. When...
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Chris Rogers
Apr 26, 20226 min
What’s British about the British Museum?
The question is often asked by those calling for the restitution of objects in the collections of the London institution, the world’s...
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Chris Rogers
Mar 25, 20224 min
Past present future
The tide of time governs everything we do, and always has. We might measure its passage more finely than our ancestors, but we still plan...
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Chris Rogers
Mar 19, 20223 min
D for Victory
No plan survives contact with the enemy, as Russia’s armed forces have discovered in Ukraine. Yet strikes on civilian targets, convoys...
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Chris Rogers
Feb 15, 20223 min
Making and meaning
News that Diageo is to open a microbrewery in Covent Garden next year as part of a food and drink-centred attraction called Guinness at...
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Chris Rogers
Jan 21, 20225 min
If it ain’t fixed, don’t break it...
Parliament and the BBC: two great institutions in two great buildings, yet all are under threat. Intellectual attacks are being aimed at...
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Chris Rogers
Jan 8, 20222 min
Where do we go now?
As many of us continue to find ourselves working from home, some consider their future as a result and wider demographics inexorably...
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Chris Rogers
Dec 31, 20212 min
The Lost Posts
Poised as we are today between the old and the new, now feels like a good time to explain the loss of my blog. For two months this autumn...
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