Harvey Symons

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Rajeev Syal |Garry Blight |Paul Scruton |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons

England in the 1840s was a place of dizzying industry, rapid urbanisation and technological progress. Among the proliferation of inventions, a new type of building was unveiled to the world. A prison, K-shaped with long corridors made of sure, thick walls, and small windows in cold, solitary cells. The design of Pentonville was heralded by the fashionable print media of the day.

3 weeks ago | theguardian.com | Jonathan Watts |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons

Yellowstone in Montana may have the most romanticised cowboy culture in the world thanks to the TV drama series of the same name starring Kevin Costner. But the true home of the 21st-century cowboy is about 7,500 miles south, in what used to be the Amazon rainforest of Brazil, where the reality of raising cattle and producing beef is better characterised by depression, market pressure and vexed efforts to prevent the destruction of the land and its people.

2 months ago | theguardian.com | Henry Dyer |Lucy Swan |Harvey Symons

Labour promised in its manifesto to downsize the House of Lords, which has ballooned over the past two decades. The government has already put forward legislation to remove hereditary peers, which is making its way through parliament. But a manifesto proposal for a mandatory retirement age of 80 now appears in doubt. Combined, these two measures would have halved the size of the upper house.

Feb 11, 2025 | msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy

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Feb 11, 2025 | msn.com | Lucy Swan |Ashley Kirk |Paul Scruton |Harvey Symons |Finbarr Sheehy

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