Save England’s apples!
On a grey autumn morning, the apples in the National Fruit Collection look vivid. They pile up in pyramids of…
Was Dick Cheney a hero or a villain?
Former US vice president Dick Cheney died last night aged 84. He arrived in Washington as a congressman for Wyoming,…
Is the Virginia election a referendum on Trump?
The Virginia state elections had looked predictable. Nearly every poll showed the Democrats poised to win all three executive offices…
The dying art of costume design
At the receptionist’s desk in Cosprop’s studio and costume warehouse, a former Kwik Fit garage, the sloping bleakness of Holloway…
The art of dining
Ivan Day pulls out an old Habsburg cookbook from his library. The 300-year-old volume is so thick it’s almost a…
Why does Pope Leo think immigration is a pro-life issue?
On Tuesday evening, the Illinois pope weighed in on Illinois politics. A reporter from the Catholic news outlet EWTN asked…
I made the Epstein cookies
Is it wrong to bake cookies from a recipe addressed to a pedophile and sex trafficker? When I found the…
Is it really ‘clear’ the Trump-Epstein birthday letter is fake?
The “bawdy” birthday letter from Donald Trump to Jeffrey Epstein, which the Wall Street Journal reported the existence of in July, has…
The Catholic influencers spreading the word of God
Vatican City In an auditorium just outside St Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican’s Secretary of State, Cardinal Pietro Parolin, sat solemnly…
The NHS is to blame for Bonnie Blue
Channel 4’s documentary begins as the ‘adult content creator’ Bonnie Blue (real name: Tia Billinger, 26, Derbyshire) prepares to beat…
The joys of mudlarking
Imagine a London of the distant future. A mudlark combs through the Thames foreshore, looking for relics of the past.…
Why I’m ditching ‘authentic’ travel
I’ve always heard Americans describe the food in Rome as “authentic,” though maybe that’s only relative to our three square…
Donald Trump’s papal style
The election of the first American pope, Leo XIV, comes at a strange time when a Catholic establishment is running…
At Japan House humanity has arrived at the perfect future: food for ogling, not eating
There is a popular Japanese television show that features a segment called ‘Candy Or Not Candy?’. Contestants are presented with…
Biden’s social media needs a refresh
Joe Biden has a cold. That was the desperate message sent out by sources close to the president halfway through…
Will my generation still remember D-Day?
In the town of Sainte-Mère-Église, just inland of Utah Beach on the coast of Normandy, a crowd had gathered before…
Compelling and somewhat heartbreaking: Girls State, on Apple TV+, reviewed
Here’s a fun thought experiment: instead of entrusting the future of American democracy to one of two old men, what…
Botswana’s President: elephant hunting isn’t cruel, it’s necessary
Last month, Botswana’s Minister for Environment and Tourism Dumezweni Mthimkhulu threatened to send 10,000 elephants to Hyde Park. This week,…
Celibacy isn’t cool
Abstinence doesn’t typically come to mind when you think of Valentine’s Day. But this year it coincides with Ash Wednesday…
Bring up the bodies
Margaret Mitchell on the ethics of museums of anatomical specimens
