Assad’s little helper
The drug that’s funding the Syrian regime
Letters
Zero sense Sir: Ross Clark’s article (‘Hot air’, 12 November) neatly sums up some of the fallacies of the net…
Elf and safety
Are child protection guidelines killing Santa’s appeal?
Low life
Catriona went to England and Scotland for ten days. The last thing she said to the lean and slippered pantaloon…
New dogs, old tricks
Dame Edna Everage says one of life’s most precious gifts is the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.…
Mad about the girl
Viewers watching a good romcom need to fall in love with three things. The boy, the girl and the affair…
Doggy style
Have you ever seen film of the England 1966 football team holding the World Cup at the Royal Garden Hotel,…
Comfort in austerity
There’s advice on pressure cooking and butter-making, plus simple recipes for family meals, Mediterranean vegan dishes and south Asian specialities
Sexy time all the way
A hotel bellboy, the story goes, discovered George Best in a luxury suite surrounded by scantily clad lovelies and empty…
Ghosts of Rwanda
The veteran journalist Fergal Keane describes the horror of witnessing atrocities worldwide – and his mystifying compulsion to return for more
A man to fake dying for
Donna Freed finally learns the truth about her biological parents, whose insurance fraud in 1960s America resembled the plot of Double Indemnity
Exhilarating: English National Ballet triple bill, at Sadler's Wells, reviewed
Headed for San Francisco, Tamara Rojo bows out of her directorship of English National Ballet with an exhilarating triple bill…
Bruce Springsteen: Only the Strong Survive
Grade: B What’s the worst-ever cover version (after Madonna’s hilarious stab at ‘American Pie’)? I reckon Creedence Clearwater Revival’s interminable…
Bent coppers
Tom Harper exposes deep-grained criminality at the Met, including actively assisting violent offenders and stealing thousands from the public purse
The luck of the devil
Lenin and Mussolini were chief among 20th-century leaders who owed their initial success purely to chance, says Ian Kershaw
Dine with the Devil
The Menu is a comedy-horror-thriller set in an exclusive restaurant on a private island and it gives the rich a…
Dashed dreams
Twin brothers sponsor a radical building programme in postwar Britain – but the collapse of a tower block raises questions of conscience and accountability
Comic genius
Mathew Lyons on the life lessons of Peanuts
Our very own treasure island
The vast majority of significant finds are now unearthed by amateurs – including the Nebra Sky Disc, the centrepiece of the British Museum’s recent Stonehenge exhibition
Sunken wreck
A great talent is wasted in Cormac McCarthy’s meandering tale of a mysterious plane crash and its aftermath, says Philip Hensher
