Woman About Town
Adventures in Soho
All the pleasures of roughing it and very little of the actual rough
Kurdish delight
Witnessing ancient traditions that have endured through fraught and tumultuous histories
Like a homecoming
A haunted house
An elusive eatery
Total failure, redeemed by souvlaki and chips at the kebab stand
Paris cinema
There are no songs or movies about Paris in the winter
The world’s most beloved oratorio
Hallelujah to that
My Italian Stallion
The winning jockey receives a splendid silver cup and a very Sud-Tirol basket of apples
Four divided by two
After nearly 25 years (and more than half my life), I can do what I like
Dei ex machinae
15 August is the worst day of the year for a swim at the Venice Lido
Bangers with bite
Forewarned is forearmed, especially when the choruses come this big
Most Read
Gary Stevenson is wrong about wealth taxes
The popular economist is irritating, but more importantly he is mistaken
Tame Impala fails to impress
unconquered by a
taste of Crusader food
Why they hated Ann Widdecombe
Fair-minded people could agree or disagree with her opinions. Left-wing bigots hated her for not abandoning them
Ethnic minorities are abandoning Labour
It is not just Muslim voters who have been abandoning the Labour Party
How to fix the economy
A repentant ex-financial trader tells all
Losing control of the narrative
The British establishment no longer sets the terms of public debate over migration
The decision-dodgers
The puberty blocker trial shows that outsourcing policy choices to experts isn’t working
France’s fading yellow jersey
The Tour de France once united France, but now reflects its divisions
The last of the fine arts
Hockney insisted on doing exactly as he pleased — and his cigarettes were as much a part of his artistic philosophy as his paintbrush.
Paean to a green and pleasant land
The finest living example of that perennial English type, the countryman-writer
First time thrills
Most of all, it was a tournament of heroes and villains
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
Stop underestimating British tech
We should not surrender to the idea that American companies can do everything better
The Third China Shock?
We are unprepared for the possibility of a future Chinese hegemon
Sweeter the second time around
There’s a real weight to some lyrics once you’re nearer the end than the beginning