Bones of contention
A few years ago, a group of Native American leaders drove 12 hours from Oklahoma to Denver Museum of Nature…
An eye for sensationalism
According to Private Eye, executives at the Daily Mail were alarmed by the impending publication of Adrian Addison’s new history…
Too young to die
In the north transept of Westminster Abbey, there is a memorial by Joseph Nollekens to three British captains killed at…
No end in sight
Are you a deathist? A deathist is someone who accepts the fact of death, who thinks the ongoing massacre of…
Jamie’s latest plank
Barbecoa is Jamie Oliver’s new restaurant on Piccadilly, and no matter how many times I mutter the name, I do…
High life
Things that I once loved — Fifth Avenue & 57th Street, brownstone terraces on hot summer afternoons, cold beer and…
Bias and the BBC
Last week, Nick Robinson wrote an article in the Radio Times saying Radio 4’s Today programme no longer has an…
Side-saddle is sexy
These days there are more than 1,000 members of the Side Saddle Association. Well, of course there are. People go…
The Benedict option
Hannah Roberts, an English Catholic friend, was once telling me about her family’s long history in Yorkshire. She spoke with…
Trump, the emptiest mind
Howard Jacobson awoke to the news of Trump’s victory in November. He had no newspaper column so, what could he…
Frank Matcham
Go inside the Everyman Theatre, Cheltenham, preferably when it is empty. Look round. Look up. And there it is, with…
Reforming Islam
The Koran was placed on the highest possible level in my household. It was a mark of awe that the…
Conservatives and universities
Belatedly, the Left’s capture of our universities is attracting some attention. Not enough, of course, but it’s a start after…
The curious case of third wave feminists
The third-wave feminist is a curious creature. Her comrades are a strange sub-strata of Millennial and Generation X women with…
Labor voters’ choice? Tony.
Tony Abbott is a ‘very good human being’, ‘his decency quite impossible to overlook’, declares the ALP eminence, Graham Richardson.…
Low life
I ran for the airport terminal shuttle bus; the doors shut behind me as I skipped on. I sank into…
King Charles’s head
‘It has become something of a King Charles’ head, or should that be a King Charles’s head?’ said my husband,…
Real life
Some people get into the choosing of tap fittings. I am not a person who gets into the choosing of…
What makes players popular?
What a treat to be Sergio Garcia. Not only have you just won your first major and trousered a small…
Why Parcs life is not for me
Against my better judgment, I agreed to go to Center Parcs for an Easter weekend break. We chose the one…
The turf
Every Grand National reminds me of a hero of my youth: Beltrán Alfonso Osorio y Díez de Rivera, the 18th…
Osborne and the Athenians
As a result of George Osborne taking up five jobs on top of his role as MP for Tatton, an…
Barometer
Cabin fodder British Airways proposes to stop serving free meals on long-haul flights. — Although passengers once took it for…
Diary
Don’t get old! Everything takes so long – it’s an hour to get down to breakfast. And I’m not only…
