Eat, drink and be merry…
... for tomorrow traditional seasonal rituals may just be ghostly memories of a vanished world, says Melanie McDonagh
A choice of children’s books
Animal stories for children are always tricky; as J.R.R. Tolkien observed in his essay on fairy stories, you can end…
The man who broke the silence
How Professor Paul Collier has bypassed the liberal taboo on discussing immigration
Not endearing, just wince-making
To understand quite how disgruntled the reviews of the latest Bridget Jones diaries have been, you have to recall quite…
Less sex, please
From Bridget Jones to prime-time telly, porn culture is now mainstream
Basic instincts
What do women want? You might have thought the Wife of Bath had got this one sorted, but Daniel Bergner…
No saint
G.K. Chesterton was a great journalist, not an angel
Bloody Vikings
Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel
The urban peasant diet
You know that something’s afoot when Lakeland says so. Lakeland is the kitchenware company which has more of a finger…
Measuring up to Machiavelli
Few of today’s statesmen, says Philip Bobbitt, deserve comparison with the ‘seriously ethical’ author of The Prince
