Chris Rogers
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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
- 3 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, 2022
- 5 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, 2022
- 6 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, 2022
- 4 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 5 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, 2022
- 2 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, 2021
- 2 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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