The Union’s best hope
After the narrow victory of the Brexit campaign in 2016, it was often said that the result would lead to…
Sleeper trains
It’s a fabulous combination: travelling by train and sleeping. And the good news is that the concept of sleeper trains…
The rule of lawyers
Have you had your fourth Covid booster jab yet? They are being very quiet about it these days. I used…
Express joy
Darjeeling Express lives at the top of Kingly Court, just off Carnaby Street, which was once the world-famous embodiment of…
Letter from down under
The mob lunged towards me, screeching and grabbing, and I knew that if I fell I would never get up.…
Speaker’s corner
In Competition No. 3292, you were invited to provide a poem to mark the death of Betty Boothroyd. The formidable…
Sharron Davies’s great victory
It’s been quite a while since we celebrated any of Sharron Davies’s considerable achievements in the pool – well, a…
There’s no bargaining with my wife
For me, one of the joys of going abroad is bargaining with the local sellers. They name an extortionate price;…
Bring back the savoury!
For a while now, we’ve been living through a renaissance of classical British cooking: a whole host of restaurants have…
‘My country is a proxy of the Russian state’
Georgia’s exiled former defence minister on Putin, poisonings and EU membership
Beware the AI voice thieves
After years of blissful indifference, finally I’m scared of AI. I’ve been complacent, slept soundly beside my husband as he…
Our poor deluded MPs
They say that death and taxes are the only certainties in life. But I would add a couple more things…
