Craig brown

Wallace Arnold: Pity the hard-pressed Snuff Community

19 December 2020 9:00 am

Could it really be 40 years since one was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature? Borne up…

Books of the year

11 November 2017 9:00 am

A.N. Wilson Elmet by Fiona Mozley (John Murray, £10.99). It is difficult to convey the full horror of this spellbinding…

Alexander Chancellor’s diary: Picking golden oldies, Ken Dodd, and the sadness of Jack Nicholson

7 February 2015 9:00 am

An excellent test of character is a person’s response to being offered an Oldie of the Year Award. There have…