Radio and podcasts
Should we take Beryl Cook more seriously?
The late Victoria Wood described Beryl Cook as ‘Rubens with jokes’. This was flattering for an artist whose fat, eye-shadowed…
In defence of Thames Water
Perhaps the greatest honour ever paid to Queen Victoria was to have a sewage-pumping engine named after her. Both she…
Alexis de Tocqueville’s America has vanished
When Alexis de Tocqueville arrived in New York in 1831, he found a city a quarter of the size of…
