Research and rescue
The Falkland Islands bids farewell to the RSS James Clark Ross and a Marylebone gallery hosts a virtual exhibition of Antarctic photographs
Evensong at the end of the world
ASH Smyth sings choral evensong for Candlemas, in Stanley cathedral
Quarantine in the Falkland Islands – continued
In the final instalment of his Falklands quarantine diary, ASH Smyth gears up for the outside world after two weeks at home
Crashed and Burnsed
ASH Smyth gives a poetically bad speech at the Galle Literary Festival for the Caledonian Society of Sri Lanka
Quarantine in the Falkland Islands
From South Asia to the South Atlantic, in the time of Covid
Seven kinds of people you find in bookshops
Former bookseller A.S.H. Smyth enjoys a bestselling bookshop owner’s taxonomy of bookshop people
His race is run
ASH Smyth remembers Ben Cross, Harold Abrahams, and the impact Chariots of Fire had on his 10-year-old self
None should sleep
A TOSCCA conversation on potential catastrophe in the Caucasus
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
The Gentleman’s Marathon
ASH Smyth recounts his one experience of ‘running’ 26.2 miles