Anthem of hope
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Mannenberg, the seminal album by the Cape Townian jazz pianist…
Ice Sculpture
If I begged you to, would you hitchhike to the ice-sculpture factory, where the drunken cow was just presented, and…
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
Eva Remembers Her Two Brothers Called James
When she thinks (if she does) of the first James it is of a six-year-old who died when she was…
The joy of Glenmorangie
Glenmorangie is the most accessible of malt whiskies. It is a gentle, almost feminine creature, with hints of spring flowers,…
Six ways to a better life
But why did the food [in England] stay so bad after refrigerated ships, frozen foods and eventually air-freight deliveries of…
Wild life
Rift Valley Many of my British tribe fled Kenya around independence in 1963 because they believed there was no future.…
Anthem of hope
This month marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Mannenberg, the seminal album by the Cape Townian jazz pianist…
Inspired messiness
Can you tell how intelligent a musician is by listening to him play? Last year I discovered a recording of…
Inspired messiness
Can you tell how intelligent a musician is by listening to him play? Last year I discovered a recording of…
Ice Sculpture
If I begged you to, would you hitchhike to the ice-sculpture factory, where the drunken cow was just presented, and…
The big fat lie about cholesterol
Though I’m not generally big on banning stuff, there’s one substance I would prohibit without a moment’s hesitation — probably on…
Good luck finding goodies and baddies in Iraq
If there’s a bright spot in the murky mess of Iraq, it’s that finally we have a war that it…
À la recherche du tea perdu
Every summer this magazine invites some of its (randomly selected) subscribers to tea in the garden. Every Englishman loves tea…
Australian notes
So despite being ‘well-meaning’ I am, according to Peter Manning in last week’s Sun-Herald, some sort of ‘racist’. This became…
À la recherche du tea perdu
Every summer this magazine invites some of its (randomly selected) subscribers to tea in the garden. Every Englishman loves tea…
This ‘Islamist conspiracy’ is WMD all over again
It’s not enough to know what people would like to do. We need evidence they’ve done it
The forgotten liberator
Granville Sharp was not the sort of young radical that films like Belle celebrate. That’s exactly why we should remember him
2166: Somewhere X
Somewhere next to 34 and 12, 33 is 25, the highest mountain is 1D (two words), and the principal 3…
to 2163: Muscle
The LITERAL QUINTET (13/22) was TERSE (37). 7A suggests ‘reest’, 40 steer, 5 stere, 6 ester, 19 trees and 26…
Australian Letters
Old cabby’s tale Stephen Rommei’s London cabby story (Diary, 7 June) reminded me of catching a cab one cold night…
Brown Study
Those of you who have read this column recently know that what has been agitating me is the expansion of…
Out of his depth
There are individuals who, when fate hands them the opportunity for greatness, have risen to the challenge. Rob Oakeshott was…
