Christmas lists
William Brown had the right idea about Christmas lists. Under the heading ‘Things I Want for Christmas’, he requests: a…
Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague
What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…
Look beyond ‘Girl with a Pearl Earring’ in The Hague
What a fate it is to be hung next to the most famous painting in a gallery. To be overlooked,…
Autumn
Each year when I see the first conker of the autumn I think: fire up the ancestral ovens! This incendiary…
Autumn
Each year when I see the first conker of the autumn I think: fire up the ancestral ovens! This incendiary…
Social climbing through the basement
This book has brought out my inner Miliband. A punitive mansion tax on all properties with garden squares in Notting…
I second that emoji
Why my generation has fallen for the smiley-face cult
Pursuing the perfect scoop
Paradise City, Elizabeth Day’s third novel, comes with an accompanying essay on The Pool — an online magazine for the…
The age of the Skype Dad
What happens when a divorce court accepts video calls as a substitute for visiting your children
Pussy’s in the well
During the second world war, when not only food, but paper and artists’ materials were scarce, Peggy Angus made a…
At home with the Bloomsberries
Above the range in the kitchen at Charleston House is a painted inscription: ‘Grace Higgens worked here for 50 years…
