Hell is a heat pump
Hell is a heat pump
Beware of pity
In her powerful memoir-cum-manifesto, Selina Mills tells us what she misses most, what irritates her most and why she won’t have a guide dog
A last-minute escape from the Holocaust
In a profoundly moving family memoir, Daniel Finkelstein describes the miracle by which his mother, as a child, was rescued from the hell of Belsen
The sadness of Britain’s seaside resorts
Their decline began with the arrival of package holidays in the 1960s – and new schemes for their revival seem already to have backfired
The madness of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods
The madness of the Low Traffic Neighbourhood measures
My search for London’s cheapest flat
My hunt for the cheapest property in London
The puppetry renaissance
Advance ticket sales for My Neighbour Totoro, the Royal Shakespeare Company’s current production running till mid-January, beat all Barbican box-office…
The joy of loathing the Qatar World Cup
I’ll miss hating the Qatar World Cup
The glamour and romance of London’s vanished department stores
There are two journeys I’ll need to make after reading Tessa Boase’s heartbreakingly poignant book about London’s lost department stores.…
The parallel universe you can explore on two wheels
Many of us daydream about escaping into an imaginary parallel universe. The good news is that Britain has its own…
Spare us the preaching: The Railway Children Return reviewed
It doesn’t help the cause of The Railway Children Return that the original 1970 Railway Children film is currently on…
The pernicious creep of the 20mph zone
The blight of the 20mph speed limit
I’m being priced out of eating out
Restaurant prices are no longer worth it
Sister, where are you? – Clover Stroud mourns her beloved sibling
‘CERTIFICATE IS NOT EVIDENCE OF IDENTITY,’ the freshly issued death certificate read. In the craziness and shock of grief for…
Bring back communion wine
Don’t deny me my communion wine
The bittersweet truth about homemade marmalade
The spectrum of ‘bestowing homemade gifts on one’s friends’ ranges from giving to foisting. Pure giving is when you make…
Dancing on Terence Conran’s grave
‘Who,’ asks Stephen Bayley, in one of the ‘S.B’ chapters of this irresistibly spiky co-written book, ‘could countenance working for…
The time is up for long films
Why do films have to go on for so long?
Don’t pity me for living in London
Don’t pity me for living in London
Let hymn in: the silencing of indoor singing is senseless
The silencing of indoor singing is senseless
