Theatres all over the UK are closing their curtains for a final time in what the media have referred to as a “national emergency” for the arts sector. But though the national... Read more »
Taormina, Sicily, and the blue Mediterranean was sparkling below as I and other guests at the film festival enjoyed drinks by the hotel swimming pool. A naive but ambitious 18-year-old between school... Read more »
Burgess Park is not the most beautiful park in the UK. To be honest, it’s not even the most beautiful park in its own corner of south-east London. One friend accurately described... Read more »
Rollie at NLCOP STOP HS2’s occupation of Euston Square Gardens in January 2019 was one of the most audacious protests I can remember. The campaigners lived during a freezing January month in... Read more »
Breadcrumb Trail Links Books A Girl Walks into the Woods is the latest project from Old North graphic novelist Diana Tamblyn. It’s a short comic, yet powerful. Reviews and recommendations are unbiased... Read more »
It is a scene of little drama, yet says so much that it stays in my mind. A couple of years ago, I was reporting in Ashington, Northumberland, as Labour activists debated... Read more »
Just to the south of London’s great stations for the north – Euston, St Pancras and King’s Cross – an old and rather careworn neighbourhood serves the traveller’s needs. Cheap beds, cheap... Read more »
BOOK OF THE WEEK THE TURNING POINT by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst (Cape, £25, 368 pp) London in 1851: a city of dense and persistent fog, of foul smells and, for a large swathe... Read more »
