Enid Blyton

What Meghan Markle can learn from Enid Blyton

20 June 2021 10:15 am

The year is 2070 and English Heritage are unveiling their latest Blue Plaque: ‘The Duchess of Sussex, children’s author, lived…

Whores of phwoar: women talking dirty

18 January 2020 9:00 am

Jonathon Green is a tosher. As a lexicographer he dives into archives and emerges with armfuls of slangy curios, such…

Lucy Mangan has enough comic energy to power the National Grid

17 March 2018 9:00 am

After three hot-water-bottle-warmed evenings of highly satisfying bedtime reading, I can confirm that, even in a world where Francis Spufford’s…

You realise how little you know of anybody when they die

31 January 2015 9:00 am

Whether or not you believe in the afterlife, death remains an impenetrable mystery. One moment a person is making jokes…