Woman About Town
Afternoon delights
Alexander Larman reports from a half-liberated, half-imprisoned world
Alice in blunderland
The V&A reckons Alice in Wonderland is a self-help manual in the sex-war rather than the daydreams of an old Oxford perv
Duchess of Grub St.
I’m delighted that Meghan Markle has decided to stop causing controversy and embark on the more sedate pursuit of a literary career
The Conservatives need a clear-out
Failed advisers and politicians have to be removed
Ulster’s deadly web
What if one of the most useful British agents inside the IRA was also a mass murderer?
That was the night that was
A new dawn has broken, even if the sky is grey
WHO do they think they are?
Politicians should be more sceptical about ideology packaged as “public health”
Crossroads of history
Cyprus is an island of contradictions, and the more we learn about it, the more paradoxical it becomes
The problem with the Celtic Fringe
Devolution has proved to be a disastrous mistake
The town besieged
During the English Civil War, towns were fiercely divided
When breast isn’t best
A major maternity support group is at war with its trustees over its insistence that men should be enabled to breastfeed
A spy’s afterlife
John le Carré’s work and life still haunt British culture
Plague and progress
In the 17th century, disease drove social and urban change in England
Children of the apocalypse
When you tell young people that the end of the world is coming, what do you expect them to do?
