Nigeness

Many readers find Geoffrey Hill's poetry difficult. Well, fear not – here is Harold Bloom, in his Introduction to Somewhere Is Such a Ki...

Britain's oldest man, Bob Weighton of Alton, Hampshire, died today at the astonishing age of 112. Once, when asked about the secret of l...

Yesterday afternoon, walking with my son (conversing by megaphone from a safe social distance, of course) on Ashtead common, I had the rare ...

Good news about this year's Turner Prize: it's been cancelled. Instead, ten bursaries of £10,000 will be distributed to young artist...

My father would have turned 111 today – born under Edward VII and, as he used to claim, in uniform in both world wars (in the First, it was ...

As a lifelong radio lover, one-time radio critic and intermittent fan of Radio 4, despite its present  all-pervasive wokeness , I am alway...

I have now completed my big 'lockdown' reading project. Yes, I've finished reading Alessandro Manzoni's The Betrothed – and...