Harry Mount’s diary: Class war with classicists and wisdom from Brian Sewell
I never knew classicists could be so scary! Last week I wrote a Telegraph article saying classics exams had been…
Seeing Paris through Impressionist eyes
The spectre of the Charlie Hebdo killings still hangs over Paris. Outside the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, opposite the…
Impressionist Paris
The spectre of the Charlie Hebdo killings still hangs over Paris. Outside the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, opposite the…
The first Lord Dufferin: the eclipse of a most eminent Victorian
The first Marquess of Dufferin and Ava is largely forgotten today — rotten luck for the great diplomat of the…
Don’t mock Elvis’s style - he was ahead of the curve
In the giftshop at the new Elvis exhibition at the Dome, you can buy your own version of his flared…
When did the advertising industry get so obsessed with swearing and innuendo?
The advertising industry is obsessed with innuendo and dirty words
The National Trust is spoiling beautiful places in the name of people who’ll never visit them
Why do we ruin beautiful places to make them appeal to those who’ll never visit anyway?
The Schumacher effect: ski helmets and the grim power of celebrity
For a melancholy example of the power of celebrity, head to the Alps. Since Michael Schumacher’s accident last December in…
It’s time to shave that beard: the decade of the hipster is over
Take heart: the age of the stupid beard is coming to an end
Napoleon's birthplace feels more Italian than French
Napoleon’s birthplace, Casa Buona-parte, in Ajaccio, Corsica’s capital, is pretty grand. It has high ceilings, generous, silk-lined rooms and a…
Here comes Boris! The next Tory leadership fight has just begun
The next Tory leadership battle has just begun
How the internet can – and should – destroy estate agents
The internet can – and should – bring it about
What made Romans LOL?
At the beginning of The Art of Poetry, Horace tells a story that, he promises, will make anyone laugh: ‘If…
To be topp at lat., throw your Cambridge Latin Course away
The wisest words about learning Latin were said by that gifted prep-school boy, Nigel Molesworth: ‘Actually, it is quite easy…
The German devotion to high culture is quite shaming
The 300th anniversary of George I coming to the British throne on 1 August 1714 is big news in his…
How to buy your way into the British establishment
What money can buy in the modern British establishment
The case against London cabbies
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
'The pure pleasure of annoying people' - Peregrine Worsthorne at 90
Peregrine Worsthorne, at 90, on age, Thatcher, the public schools and the pleasure of annoying people
The men who demolished Victorian Britain
Anyone with a passing interest in old British buildings must get angry at the horrors inflicted on our town centres…
Notes on… Motoring in Greece and Italy
‘Buy on the bullets’ is the cry of the most ruthless stockbrokers — invest just before a war, after the…
Horace and Me, by Harry Eyres - review
After Zorba the Greek, here comes Horace the Roman. The peasant Zorba, you’ll remember from the film, releases uptight, genteel…
Houghton revisited
When the Marquess of Cholmondeley inherited Houghton Hall, the Palladian palace by Colen Campbell and James Gibbs, he started rootling…
Houghton revisited
When the Marquess of Cholmondeley inherited Houghton Hall, the Palladian palace by Colen Campbell and James Gibbs, he started rootling…
Building on the past
London was an industrial city until remarkably recently. It seems extraordinary now, but Bankside Power Station was built in 1947,…
