Festival

In defence of Notting Hill Carnival

30 August 2025 4:00 am

This isn’t going to be a piece celebrating the rich cultural tapestry of London’s Afro-Caribbean community, sombrely expressing the importance…

Silicon Valley stuck in the mud

9 September 2023 9:00 am

If any readers are having those September, back-to-work blues perhaps I might offer them a sure-fire palliative? Just go online…

Why the kindness of strangers trumps a pagan festival

18 August 2018 9:00 am

The entire Alpine village, contemptuously dismissed recently in an online tourist guide as a nondescript centre of old peasants and…

An orchestrated race storm

16 September 2017 9:00 am

A fascinating story has emerged from a north-western leftie quadrant of the United States: the sacking of British conductor Matthew…