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Calendar clash

11 March 2017 9:00 am

On a Friday evening in May 2018 I am going to see the Broadway show Hamilton. We had to book…

Poison, spies and lies

11 March 2017 9:00 am

 Washington DC   Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…

How to make drugs boring

11 March 2017 9:00 am

Bill Blair, the former police chief of Toronto, slides into his restaurant chair and twinkles at the waitress. He’s 6ft…

Sydney Notebook

11 March 2017 9:00 am

The other day, I went to a boozy barbecue near Sydney’s northern beaches. The guests were all political mates of…

The Suffolk side of the Stour

The Suffolk-Essex border

11 March 2017 9:00 am

You’ve already seen a picture of the Essex-Suffolk border. Assuming you’ve seen Constable’s ‘The Haywain’, that is: the Stour (the…

The plot against the Pope

11 March 2017 9:00 am

On the first Saturday in February, the people of Rome awoke to find the city covered in peculiar posters depicting…

The Suffolk side of the Stour

The Suffolk-Essex border

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

You’ve already seen a picture of the Essex-Suffolk border. Assuming you’ve seen Constable’s ‘The Haywain’, that is: the Stour (the…

The plot against the Pope

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

On the first Saturday in February, the people of Rome awoke to find the city covered in peculiar posters depicting…

Calendar clash

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

On a Friday evening in May 2018 I am going to see the Broadway show Hamilton. We had to book…

Poison, spies and lies

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

 Washington DC   Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…

How to make drugs boring

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

Bill Blair, the former police chief of Toronto, slides into his restaurant chair and twinkles at the waitress. He’s 6ft…

Dumbing down the house

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

Osterley Park on the western fringes of London is a rare survival. A Robert Adam house, with splendid Adam interiors,…

Sydney Notebook

9 March 2017 3:00 pm

The other day, I went to a boozy barbecue near Sydney’s northern beaches. The guests were all political mates of…

Memory games

4 March 2017 9:00 am

Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…

Flock horror

4 March 2017 9:00 am

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Let my daughter work

4 March 2017 9:00 am

Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…

Star power

4 March 2017 9:00 am

The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…

The Irish Jewish museum in Dublin

Dublin’s Jewish museum

4 March 2017 9:00 am

I love small museums, and the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin is a little gem, located in the neighbourhood once…

Back into battle

4 March 2017 9:00 am

On 24 June last year, in the Georgian splendour of her official residence in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, Scotland’s First Minister…

The Irish Jewish museum in Dublin

Dublin’s Jewish museum

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

I love small museums, and the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin is a little gem, located in the neighbourhood once…

Let my daughter work

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…

Flock horror

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Memory games

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…

Star power

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…

Star power

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…