Travel Writing
Journey around the travel scribes
Why is travel writing so unfashionable and even regarded by some as simply “wrong”?
Riotous isle of vanilla gangsters, lemurs and a DJ president
In his new book on Madagascar, John Gimlette tells of trouble in paradise
The extraordinary life of Jan Morris
The end of one writer’s life as a vivid dream
Is the law going coconuts?
The acquittal of a pro-Palestine protestor on free speech grounds should not be a one-off
A house divided
American partisan divisions are the result of social atomisation
Towards a hospitable environmentalism
Green ideas must transcend misanthropy and austerity
Food for thoughtlessness
The march of the public health puritans continues
British industry has forgotten how to use its voice
Corporate cowards are not standing up to the government
The Old Vic under siege
The King’s favourite Shakespearean need hardly trouble himself with such dreary details
The US city on the banks of the Thames
Critics don’t care for Canary Wharf, considering it a monument of 1980s corporatism
Aggers declares — the end of an era
It has been an assured innings, and a long one
Choosing enemies wisely
China manifestly wishes to avenge her past humiliation at Western hands