What’s it like to talk at length to a serial killer?
‘I’ve never met a human being who doesn’t appreciate being listened to, being taken seriously,’ said Asbjorn Rachlew, the Norwegian…
Bridge
It’s not surprising that so many bridge players feel such a sentimental attachment to The Young Chelsea. The club was…
Heathrow’s third runway could still be halted – here’s how
The Great British Runway final between Heathrow and Gatwick is beginning to look like a game of two halves. The…
The car insurance industry is a disgusting racket
The car insurance industry is a racket: I think we all suspected that. But unless you’ve had personal experience of…
Will Theresa lead the Out tribe?
Listen http://rss.acast.com/viewfrom22/thedeathoffeminism/media.mp3 Who is the most politically interesting member of David Cameron’s cabinet? There’s a good case to be made…
Charles Moore’s Notes: If we want to save the elephant, we must legalise the ivory trade
How good a deal for Britain is it that the president of China got a state visit and a nuclear…
The Last Kingdom is BBC2’s solemnly cheesy answer to Game of Thrones
The opening caption for The Last Kingdom (BBC2, Thursday) read ‘Kingdom of Northumbria, North of England, 866 AD’. In fact,…
Colm Tóibín on priests, loss and the half-said thing
‘No matter what I’m writing,’ says Colm Tóibín, ‘someone ends up getting abandoned. Or someone goes. No matter what I’m…
Simon Schama’s migration muddle
Sooner or later, in this trade, one runs out of television historians to antagonise. I am doggedly working my way…
To 2230: Lot 46
The unclued lights are FRENCH DÉPARTEMENTS, with five of them placed in the grid at their correct administrative number: 2,…
2233: Clutching at straws!
The unclued lights, either individually or as a pair, are of a kind. Ignore one accent. Across 4 Read…
Sri Lanka makes me yearn to be a pre-war tea planter
Tea country is just like home, only with better service and nicer cuppas
The young entrepreneurs making the best of Spain’s crisis
The youth of Andalucía are marrying new technology and old traditions to make their way
Cable cars, cheese and chic on the quieter side of the Alps
The Aosta Valley may not have all the apres-ski options of the French and Swiss Alps, but it has charm to spare
The wonders of Zanzibar’s Stone Town
It’s full of colour, spice and life — and Freddie Mercury was born there
Can the Great British public be made to care passionately about the EU referendum?
Out or In, both sides of the campaign are going to have their work cut out
The Met have found no evidence for an abuse network linked to No10. It’s time they admitted it
The police have found no evidence for ‘a paedophile network linked to No. 10’. They should now admit it.
OK: I’m convinced: one EU referendum might not be enough
The terms of our leaving should be put to us, just as the renegotiated terms of our staying will have been
The characters are barely stereotypes: The Father at the Wyndham’s reviewed
Plus: Christopher Shinn is a subtle and gifted American dramatist but his latest, Teddy Ferrara, at the Donmar is more of a TV soap than a sharp satire
I went to Pedro’s Tex Mex Cantina to claim my racist sombrero
It’s the restaurant that shows what dire straits progressive politics are in – and its fajitas are excellent
Be warned: the mighty Air Force Blue blows away all before him
Trainer Aidan O’Brien rates him as the best two-year-old he has ever handled
N.M. Gwynne’s diary: Old names worth dropping
Encounters with Peregrine Worsthorne, Joan Reinhardt and the Dowager Duchess of Grafton
