Nigeness

Bryan Appleyard recently wrote a fine piece on that pervasive cultural phenomenon of our times, the Hapless (not to say comprehensively inco...

Let's have a little Sunday music again... Glenn Gould's favourite composer was not, as you might expect, Bach, but the great Jacobea...

I'm glad to see that English Heritage has just listed 20 pubs from the interwar period. Products of the 'improved pub' movement...

Yesterday, with the rain still falling, I paid a visit to Eltham Palace, a rare survival in Southeast London of a moated bishop's palace...

On a grim day of siling rain and livid skies, it's cheering to note that at least it's Max Beerbohm's birthday - 143 today. So...

After weeks of notably wayward 'weather forecasts', it was good to hear this morning that the notorious Met Office has lost its BBC ...

On this day 60 years ago, the 33-year-old Philip Larkin was on his holidays and having a whale of a time (hem hem). Paying a reluctant retur...