The Pickwick Bicycle Club first met on 22 June 1870, a fortnight after Charles Dickens’s death, at a hotel in Hackney. The club continues to function and the building still stands on the edge of ...
In the final episode of Political Poems, Mark and Seamus discuss ‘Little Gidding’, the fourth poem of T.S. Eliot’s Four Quartets. Emerging out of Eliot’s experiences of the Blitz, ‘Little Gidding’ ...
One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as ...
Wynne Godley was by turns a professional oboist, a fellow of King’s College, Cambridge, an economist at the Treasury and a director of the Royal Opera House. Yet at thirty he found himself ‘living ...
The world has been Surrealist for a hundred years, though the adjective that people turn to in trying to describe ...
One of the only ways for foreign correspondents to get into Mali now is to rely on the services of human smugglers, as I did a few weeks ago. A former journalist turned fixer told me there were ‘no ...
The Archbishop of Canterbury announced his resignation last month, five days after the publication of an ...
People have been seeing weird things in the sky since the beginning of recorded history, but popular fascination ...
Daniel Defoe , in his Tour thro’ the Whole Island of Great Britain (1724-26), was unimpressed by the prehistoric remains.
James Butler joins Tom to discuss the findings of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, including the causes and consequences of the fire and whether those responsible will be brought to justice.
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