Notes on…
The Marx Memorial Library
There’s a small corner of Clerkenwell where the communist dream never died. The Marx Memorial Library has been in its…
Notes on California
The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…
Notes on California
The mood in California was apologetic. Most people we met seemed embarrassed that their country’s dirty laundry was being aired…
Burlington Arcade
It all began with oysters. Londoners used to eat them as they walked along, throwing away the shells much as…
Notes on… Champagne
The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…
Notes on… Champagne
The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…
Mississippi hospitality
Driving into Greenwood after dark, we pull into a gas station and ask directions to a late-night grocery store. ‘Sir……
Mississippi hospitality
Driving into Greenwood after dark, we pull into a gas station and ask directions to a late-night grocery store. ‘Sir……
A pint of Landlord
Down a lane in Keighley, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, they brew the greatest ale in the world.…
A pint of Landlord
Down a lane in Keighley, in the old West Riding of Yorkshire, they brew the greatest ale in the world.…
Croatia
Advocates of New Zealand often boast that the country is like Britain was in the 1950s. This is all well…
Croatia
Advocates of New Zealand often boast that the country is like Britain was in the 1950s. This is all well…
The Victoria and Albert
Thomas Hardy, while still married to his first wife Emma, but arranging assignations in London with Florence, his second-wife-to-be, used…
London’s lost rivers
I found my first of London’s many lost rivers when I walked across Holborn Viaduct, looked down at the sweep…
London’s lost rivers
I found my first of London’s many lost rivers when I walked across Holborn Viaduct, looked down at the sweep…
The Douro Valley
They’re called quintas, Joana tells us, because the rich families who owned the land along this stretch of the Douro…
Bare ruined choirs
We’re so used to looking at the abbeys smashed up by Henry VIII — particularly Rievaulx and Byland, in north…
Bare ruined choirs
We’re so used to looking at the abbeys smashed up by Henry VIII — particularly Rievaulx and Byland, in north…
Mussolini at Lake Como
If your destiny is to be shot dead with your mistress, where better than Lake Como, which, in the words…
Mussolini at Lake Como
If your destiny is to be shot dead with your mistress, where better than Lake Como, which, in the words…
Peggy Guggenheim
She had come a very long way from the shtetl, but Marguerite ‘Peggy’ Guggenheim was still the poor relation of…
Peggy Guggenheim
She had come a very long way from the shtetl, but Marguerite ‘Peggy’ Guggenheim was still the poor relation of…
The first favela
Where are you going?’ demanded the boy on the wall. A walkie-talkie clipped to his denim shorts crackled, but there…
The first favela
Where are you going?’ demanded the boy on the wall. A walkie-talkie clipped to his denim shorts crackled, but there…
Skye
Glamour. It’s Marcello Mastroianni drinking negronis on the Via Veneto; it’s Audrey Hepburn, George Clooney, Sinatra on the Vegas Strip…
