George Orwell

Prolific

17 January 2015 9:00 am

I read somewhere recently of a Soho artist who was a ‘prolific drinker’. The meaning is clear, but hasn’t the…

The age of consent

27 September 2014 9:00 am

Universities are forcing undergraduates to attend sex education classes. Poor students

‘Harmony and order were what Jane Austen sought in her life and work’. Chawton House, in Hampshire (above), was inherited by Jane’s brother, Edward.

Blue-sky thinking

5 April 2014 9:00 am

‘Life is bristling with thorns,’ Voltaire observed in 1769, ‘and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one’s garden.’…

Curse you, Sandbrook

16 November 2013 9:00 am

Gosh it isn’t half irksome when someone who went to the same school as you but is considerably younger than…