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A Dramatist’s Notebook
The nicest day of the year was spent at Charleston in May. The Sussex farmhouse shared by Duncan Grant and…
Thrown to the lions
Why are we abandoning Christians to Isis?
The Christmas lunch
Illustrated by Carolyn Gowdy The early Christmas lunch party had been Bunny Wedgewood’s idea. But Bunny had pulled out the…
American notebook
The trouble with going on an American book tour is that I know it’s going to play havoc with my…
Ofsted in the dock
Sir Michael Wilshaw must revamp his power-crazed organisation
Notes from the Catwalk
It seems as though I have just been on some grand tour of the absurd. It helps that I work…
Salmond’s revenge
Scotland’s former first minister on the allure of the Commons, the Queen and Prince Charles – and the defects of Cameron and Miliband
Winter Diary
A few days ago I went truffle hunting in Piedmont. It’s been a bumper year for white truffles in northern…
A singleton’s notebook
Christmas will be a very warm occasion for me. I’ll be spending it with the Massonneaus — my family —…
A sexual counter-revolution
Forget the culture war rhetoric. We straight white males have won
Bletchley spark
The story of how we cracked Enigma was top secret, then misrepresented. Now it’s a worldwide cult
From the archive: Sound of the season
How ‘White Christmas’ invented the modern festive song
The Servant
You will see, alas, that all of this is true. One morning, I awoke in a feather bed in a…
The Northern Lights
Getting here took a long time. First a flight to Seattle, then a connection to Fairbanks, followed by a coach…
The Christmas lunch
Illustrated by Carolyn Gowdy The early Christmas lunch party had been Bunny Wedgewood’s idea. But Bunny had pulled out the…
The Servant
You will see, alas, that all of this is true. One morning, I awoke in a feather bed in a…
The Servant
You will see, alas, that all of this is true. One morning, I awoke in a feather bed in a…
The Christmas lunch
Illustrated by Carolyn Gowdy The early Christmas lunch party had been Bunny Wedgewood’s idea. But Bunny had pulled out the…
Moscow calling
Russia Today’s mission to subvert the West from your living room
Into the Night
You fling yourself out the door into the wind and start to row yourself down the steep hill with your…
Russia falling
Will Putin’s people still love him when the money dries up? He’s about to find out
How HS2 blights lives
Whether the high-speed rail line is built or not, it is destroying the retirements of people like my parents
Beyond the rainbow
One year after Mandela’s death, the situation in South Africa is as bleak as it has been since the arrival of democracy
The Pope is all right
Discovering the hidden key to Francis’s populist politics
Fame at last
There’s nothing like getting your face on the telly to turn you into a narcissist overnight
