How to read well
What the title promises is not found inside. It is a tease. John Sutherland says he has ‘been paid one…
Madrid
I got Madrid utterly wrong for quite a long time. It’s a lovely city to walk in, and I thought…
Christmas Quiz
Set by Christopher Howse
The Christmas Quiz answers
Says who? 1. David Cameron. 2. The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Revd Justin Welby. 3. Nick Clegg. 4. Prince…
A certain way with words
In the reminiscences of Bertie Wooster we find this: As I sat in the bathtub, soaping a meditative foot and…
Seeing double
The game that Charles Saatchi plays in The Naked Eye is to find photographs of subjects that look surprisingly like…
Reading a face
Do you think you can tell things about writers from the way they look in a painting or photograph? A…
