Features
Climate of ignorance
Global greening is the name given to a gradual, but large, increase in green vegetation on the planet over the…
Japan Notebook
Tokyo is visual chaos everywhere, the antithesis of the Japanese interior. It is a multilevel jumble of overpasses, neon signs,…
Notes on… Champagne
The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…
Carney must go
Oh dear. Mark Carney is irritated. His proud independence has been challenged. The Prime Minister had the temerity to admit…
Notes on… Champagne
The British are notoriously cheap when it comes to wine; the average bottle price is around £6. On one wine,…
Putin’s next move
The old KGB headquarters in the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, is a sinister place, full of ghosts. It is a solid…
The road to the Jungle
Calais On Sunday evening a British motorist, Abraham Reichman, 35, from Stamford Hill, north London, hit two Eritrean migrants who…
Lights, camera, politics
At the end of Sunday night’s US presidential debate, the moderators snuck in a final question from a slightly shell…
Jolly good show
It’s tempting for a Brit to look over the Atlantic and smugly conclude that, after 240 years, the American experiment…
Vanity bombing
‘When you’ve shouted Rule Britannia, when you’ve sung God Save the Queen, when you’ve finished killing Kruger with your mouth…’…
Words on the street
A white van pulls up outside St Giles in the Fields, an imposing 18th century church in central London, around…
Have gun, will kill
Woody Allen said of crime that the hours were good and you meet a lot of interesting people. I don’t…
Hong kong: Eating it up
The brilliant thing about Hong Kong is that you don’t have to worry for a second about all the culture…
May’s head on the block
Understand what this government is trying to get away with, and think about how it is trying to get away…
Mississippi hospitality
Driving into Greenwood after dark, we pull into a gas station and ask directions to a late-night grocery store. ‘Sir……
Breach of Trust
Ever since it was founded in 1895, the National Trust has been considered a good thing. That oak tree sticker…
Muslim magic
In 1402, when the Turkic conqueror Temur, better known in the West as Tamerlane, was poised to do battle with…
Mississippi hospitality
Driving into Greenwood after dark, we pull into a gas station and ask directions to a late-night grocery store. ‘Sir……
The parenting trap
Out of the fog of rumour and accusation surrounding the melancholy break-up of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, one source…
Syrian nightmare
‘We are used to death,’ said Ismail. He had been to the funerals of four friends in a single week,…
Meet Boris Mark II
The make-up lady at the BBC’s Millbank studio in Westminster has noticed a change in Boris Johnson’s look. ‘His hair…
Brains for Trump
Last week more than 130 right-wing thinkers put their names to a defiant document — a list of ‘Scholars and…
The students fight back
Last week, students at York University staged a walkout from the sexual consent classes organised by their student union women’s…
Unhappy Pill
A study came out last week that should have caused great alarm. For 13 years, researchers at the University of Copenhagen studied…
Who comes after Merkel?
A year from now, 60 million Germans go to the polls in the most important general election in mainland Europe…
