Culture

on a perishingly cold day i find myself talking with harry christophers, the world-acclaimed conductor and director of the sixteen, about le...

Serenhedd James

on 5 november 1962, my father, a retired naval commander, wrote to my headmistress. dear mother shanley, i am disturbed at elisa’s continued...

Elisa Segrave

the warmth of christ shines through in his novels, says daniel frampton on the japanese author’s centenary . "the thing we are most lacking ...

Daniel Frampton

a history of delusions: the glass king, a substitute husband and a walking corpse victoria shepherd oneworld, £16.99, 352 pages where do del...

Philip Sidney

there has been a pervasive modern assumption, repeated in many church guide books, that churches dedicated to early saints were a result of ...

Martin Crampin

andrzej piotrowski reflects on fr konstantin budkiewicz, 100 years after his murder. with his balding pate, pince-nez spectacles and boy-lik...

Andrzej Piotrowski

the ‘lancet commission on the value of death’ has much to commend it, says james le fanu. like many before me, i find myself at that stage o...

James Le Fanu

the race to become the republican challenger to joe biden in next year’s presidential election has suddenly started to heat up. republican p...

Nicholas Wapshott

a bull has the ability to charge at you at up to 35mph. there are 10 40  possible moves in chess. if a cue ball hits half of the intend...

Karl Gustel Warnberg

i made the mistake over christmas of letting my kids watch home alone and they have since been rounded up and placed into a young offender’s...

Katherine Bennett