John le Carré’s voice of old-fashioned English authority was one acquired through merit and bearing rather than birth

Babs was a uniquely British actress and comedian whose true worth, thankfully, was realised comparatively early in her long career

A requiem for the radical anthropologist

Argentina is as sad as it’s ever been after the death of legendary footballer Diego Maradona

The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream

Lord Stoddart of Swindon, 1926-2020

In the wake of the Guardian’s controversial obituary of Peter Sutcliffe, Alex Larman considers the nuances of writing obits

Remembering the veteran Middle East correspondent Robert Fisk

Remembering the great British saxophonist and prize-winning maker of model aircraft

Bernd Fischer and the need for precision