Travel Writing
Life amid the ruins
Any captured, destroyed city, offers the same problems for the new owners
Shiva Naipaul
The younger brother of a controversial Nobel Prize winner who has been unjustly overlooked
Burmese days: for good and ill
There was much naivety in depicting the Anglo-Burmese engagement as one of mutual enlightenment
Alcohol and Islam
An English novelist travels the Muslim world in search of a drink
Patrick Leigh Fermor’s doomed Europe
His writing beautifully describes the older Europe that we lost
A history of the world set in stone
Popular geology writing is as old as the geological sciences themselves
The tribe that time forgot
In the heart of the Amazon basin the Korubo people live in almost total isolation
From Lima with love
Around the world to watch the bullfights
Why I still travel with my Rough Guide
The series has no equal
Like Wotan driving the storm
What it’s like to fulfil a boyhood dream on the footplate of a classic steam locomotive
Why personal insults fail
Getting personal might be mean, but it is also ineffective
The age of reason, sliced and diced
No historian wields Ockham’s razor more effectively than J.C.D. Clark
Labour is betraying women
From benefits to crime, Keir is letting women down
The British state is failing to protect women
Misogyny, rape and sectarian violence go increasingly unchallenged in the UK
England is not yet lost
Where else would you rather be from?
Sean Scully in France
He’s been showered with honours and awards — yet plenty of people can’t stand his work
A leadership bid you can’t refuse
Kemi Badenoch goes on a charm offensive
Afrocentrism with a Labour twist
Dawn Butler’s Black History Month video was disturbing as well as weird
Is this just fantasy?
Sir Brian May is wrong: farmers do care
What do Labour think a conversion therapy is?
There has to be a middle ground between complete denial and complete affirmation
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
