Diary
There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…
Et tu, Bruton?
At the Chapel, Bruton, is a restaurant and hotel in a former chapel in Bruton. This was once an ordinary…
Tarte tropézienne
Is there a more glamorous piece of pâtisserie than the tarte tropézienne? Born in the inherently chic Saint-Tropez, named by…
England just need to have fun
So the end is near… or it certainly will be soon if England’s rugby players carry on trying to do…
My wife aced it at Wimbledon-on-Sea
The Hunstanton Lawn Tennis Tournament has become an annual fixture in the Young household. Known as ‘Wimbledon-on-Sea’, the week-long competition…
George Osborne’s midlife crisis
There should be a term in anthropology for what happens to a certain type of Tory male in middle age.…
‘I want to see my parents. I’ll take any deal’
Dissident Wu’er Kaixi on why he’s desperate to return to China
Why are the British so anti-doctor?
Having lived in the United Kingdom for almost my whole adult life, I like to think I’m well assimilated. I…
A performance with teeth
It’s the Edinburgh International Festival, and Barrie’s back in town. Once, Edinburgh was pretty much the only place that you…
Letters
Murder mystery Sir: I once made a diagnosis of a very rare condition too late to cure the patient. She…
