Hmm …

… Why Ruskin is more relevant than ever | Dinah Birch. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

I have nothing against Ruskin, but that his ideas may seem in tune with today’s fashions seems neither here nor there. His “insistence that Britain’s identity must be understood in a European context” should hardly be taken to mean that he would have approved of the European Union. He may well have, but there’s no way to know.