https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.comRSS Feed for R. D. KerrenWed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/what-is-the-significance-of-heritage/Heritage is easy to recognise when it comes with battlements. It becomes harder when it is a mill, a terrace, an old cinema or the pub at the end of the road. What we choose to preserve says something about whose lives we believe are worth remembering.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/what-is-the-significance-of-heritage/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/rehabilitation-or-revenge/Most prisoners will eventually return to society. If prison is intended to punish and rehabilitate, what should happen between the gate closing and opening again? R. D. Kerr considers punishment, rehabilitation, employment, victims and the difficult question of what we actually expect prison to achieve.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/rehabilitation-or-revenge/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/hidden-britain/Beyond Stonehenge, hundreds of prehistoric monuments survive across the British landscape. Their builders left no written explanation, but the stones still have stories to tell — if we remember to look.Wed, 23 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/hidden-britain/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/this-is-not-who-we-are/A proposal to prioritise British citizens for social housing raises a harder question: when does a tenancy become a home, and how long can somebody remain a guest in the country where they have built their life?Tue, 22 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/this-is-not-who-we-are/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/the-parthenon-marbles/The argument over the Parthenon Marbles is usually presented as a question of ownership. But when an object becomes part of our shared history, ownership may no longer be enough. At some point, possession becomes stewardship.Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/the-parthenon-marbles/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/track-four/An observational poem about the world carrying on around us, whether anyone is there to witness it or not.Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/track-four/https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/reply-to-lucy-powell-technical-and-academic-education/Technical and academic education should expand opportunity together. Improving apprenticeships should not mean narrowing access to universities or deciding which ambitions belong to which class.Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0100https://rdkerr.journoportfolio.com/articles/reply-to-lucy-powell-technical-and-academic-education/