tailors
A glove affair
Christopher Pincher on great glove-making
The Foreign Office should be rooted in the past
Who and what is it for, if not the British people, and our history and culture?
Josephine Tey, woman of mystery
Deeply private, her elegant and sharply engaging writing has often been wrongly overlooked
Newsnight and the rapist
The BBC should be embarrassed by its careless coverage of a man who has now been convicted of rape
How soap helped civilisation to survive
It subdued one of our most dangerous enemies: germs
And the band played on
Cash crisis in the arts — what’s new?
Women in prisons deserve better
Classifying male criminals as women adds insult to injury
Merchants of the Venice Biennale
For all its pretentiousness, the Venice Biennale still hints towards higher truths
Daddy, what did you do during the Iraq war?
Don’t ask questions you do want the answer to, at least not where George Galloway is involved
The final lap
Senna dives into the high-speed Tamburello corner and never comes out of it
Well, well, well
The amazing discovery of a thousand Orvieto pots in a water shaft
The Conservatives should not cancel Christians
A Conservative party that demonises Christian convictions will cease to be conservative
