Auberon Waugh
Quaffing the cup that cheers
Readers should savour this book, as you might one of the delectable bottles that compose the enticing strophe of the book’s narrative
Nicholas Parsons vs Auberon Waugh
How Parsons won a battle of wits
A keen nose and sharp prose
David Womersley reviews Waugh on Wine by Auberon Waugh
Eighteen questions for Kim Leadbeater
Questions that all MPs should be asking
Subscribe to save the BBC
A radical new solution to the problem of the BBC’s outmoded licence fee that could ensure more high-quality programming
The Club of Wrong
The Club of Rome are back and dumber than ever
Not much COP
Holding the climate summit in Baku displays brazen hypocrisy
The death of modern Britishness?
Attempts to construct a dehistoricised national identity have failed
How Australia punished smokers and normalised firebombs
Smoking restrictions have fuelled the Australian tobacco wars
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
Draining the swamp
Residents are hopeful that the mayor’s grip on Venice might at last be easing
Advertisements for themselves
Michael Craig-Martin and the sad afterlife of conceptual art
Art of the deal
A simple sale, with money changing hands, was out of the question
Risks and rewards
It is too easy to forget that jockeys run life-threatening risks
