Camino de Santiago
The British pilgrimage problem
The UK could have Caminos galore
A paean to Spain and Italy during troubled times
On the Camino de Santiago pilgrimage I saw the delights of the countries most cruelly ransacked by Coronavirus
The death of charity?
The decline of religion and the fraying of our social fabric has made us meaner
There is a lushness to this expanded Letters
There is frequent reporting of local news, often betraying a hobbit-like
preoccupation with the availability of beer
Long story short
Movie length seems to have become a way for directors to tell us what serious people they are
Fire and ice
Klopp is the air-punching booming-laugh extrovert; Guardiola the turtleneck-wearing, obsessively professorial introvert
A discordant song
Classical music may be the worst casualty of identitarian politics
Finding the middle ground
Where do the acts too big for pubs but too small for arenas play?
The creation of canals
Entering the golden age of canals
Sexy simplicity
For February, try a palette cleanse
You can’t judge a book by its cover
All novels should be like this: stripped of the necessary but boring connective tissue
What are our cathedrals for?
Changes to the management of cathedrals have obscured the very point of their existence
Men deserve single-sex spaces too
The campaign against the Garrick Club is tiresome and opportunistic
