Nigeness

On this day in 1685 was born the composer I would now name as the greatest who ever lived – Johann Sebastian Bach. I didn't always thin...

'Keep Calm and Carry On' – that tiresomely ubiquitous slogan (I prefer Churchill's wartime motto, KBO, Keep Buggering On) – has ...

In the current Spectator Douglas Murray ponders a question that he sees hovering, in wait of an answer, behind the lockdown crisis – the que...

Taking my morning constitutional in the park today (while it's still legal), I decided to take a couple of photographs of an old frien...

It's rather cheering that our first line of defence against this new virus is old-fashioned soap and water – good news for retroprogress...

This particular clump of local blackthorn is always one of the last to come into flower, but it's getting there now, and at the right...

This morning, as I was passing a town-centre pub called The Old Bank – which was indeed a bank, back in the days when every high street had ...