IT’S obvious: sexual identity is part of the fatal flaw of sexuality, at least according to Jean-Paul Sartre. However, it may be not so...

FROM my time as a hospital visitor in London five years ago, two images stand out; an elderly woman who was cheerful when I...

I FIRST sensed something in our social discourse was changing about ten years ago when I brushed past a seated woman as I groped...

SIPPING coffee on what was once Prinz-Albrecht Strasse, I had a good view; piles of tidied rubble and empty space. I stared for ages....

AT the end of his great TV series Civilisation, Sir Kenneth Clark asked, ‘What is civilisation?’ He didn’t know, but turning towards Notre-Dame Cathedral...

Stan & Ollie, starring John C Reilly and Steve Coogan, directed by Jon S Baird, on general release IN the US movie tradition of making...

IT’S A century since the service of Nine Lessons & Carols began as an attempt to inspire and comfort people after the Great War....

WHAT does the “plus” mean?’ I asked the young assistant as I looked at a DAB + radio in the John Lewis post-Christmas sale. ‘I’ve...

THREE young people from differing backgrounds have this week received lengthy prison sentences – perhaps I should say four, as one small baby was...

NOT that long ago, cats got scraps. Lucky ones might feast on Spratt’s Patent Cat Food which provided puss with boiled horseflesh, sold from...

Aftermath: Art in the Wake of World War One, Tate Britain, London (now closed) Magic Realism: Art in Weimar Germany 1919-33, Tate Modern, London, until...

This article is published by kind permission of The Salisbury Review. ‘There’s so much joy in being poly’ announced a recent Guardian article. Not a...

Mr Britling Sees It Through by H G Wells: Casemate UK, £9.99 It’s unlikely that many of today’s authors are sitting down to write a...

Went to get my flu jab after being told I could visit the ‘walk-in clinic’ between 8.45am and noon. I was there bright and...

As Christine Blasey Ford presented her whining, yowling, uncorroborated account of Brett Kavanaugh’s alleged sex attack on her, I watched with puzzlement. Dr Ford, a...

‘Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me’ – this saying was given to us for protection when we...