Culture

Free as a jailbird

15 July 2017 9:00 am

Food programmes are having a strange effect on me: I watch them and feel nauseated. Masterchef, The Great British Bake…

The London mayoral election will be a battle between whatsisface and whatsisname

6 February 2016 9:00 am

London, 2012. It’s Olympic year, and east London is sprouting anew, and our city feels like the capital of the…

Plato and think-tanks

2 January 2016 9:00 am

In Living with Difference, a think-tank report on the problems raised by a multi-faith UK, the chair Baroness Butler-Sloss says…

Long life

28 February 2015 9:00 am

I went last week to see the justly praised production of Wagner’s The Mastersingers at English National Opera, and I…

Long life

15 February 2014 9:00 am

Who would ever have thought it, but I have become quite fond of Milton Keynes. Although I live slightly closer…