Death to hipsters
Take heart: the age of the stupid beard is coming to an end
Corsica
Napoleon’s birthplace, Casa Buona-parte, in Ajaccio, Corsica’s capital, is pretty grand. It has high ceilings, generous, silk-lined rooms and a…
Boris jumps in
The next Tory leadership battle has just begun
The end of estate agents
The internet can – and should – bring it about
Not many good jokes on the way to the forum
At the beginning of The Art of Poetry, Horace tells a story that, he promises, will make anyone laugh: ‘If…
Mastering a dead language…
The wisest words about learning Latin were said by that gifted prep-school boy, Nigel Molesworth: ‘Actually, it is quite easy…
Hanoverian trail
The 300th anniversary of George I coming to the British throne on 1 August 1714 is big news in his…
Cash for class
What money can buy in the modern British establishment
Stop that cab!
It’s time to end the archaic privileges of London taxi drivers
On the contrary
Peregrine Worsthorne, at 90, on age, Thatcher, the public schools and the pleasure of annoying people
Criminal damage
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…
The essential vade-mecum
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,…
