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Craig from over the fence came bearing gifts just now. One item was a load of snapper he caught yesterday. The other was a large piece of s...

Not necessarily. The Copts have a pope too. Pope Shenouda III died last week aged 88. Before he was buried he was seated on his throne...

My French is truly execrable but I like to add to my small stock of phrases when I can. From a piece by Mick Hartley quoting Richard Wolin ...

Born 27 March 1924, died 3 April 1990, Sarah Vaughan was imho the best jazz singer ever, with an immaculate technique – pitch, phrasing...

You know you live in the country when big green rubbish bins at the posh private boarding school have large labels saying: HOUSEHOLD WASTE...

Sam Leith reviews Strindberg: a life (Yale), Sue Prideaux’s biography of the 19th-century playwright August Strindberg. All I knew abou...

Terence Blacker seems a good egg – writes books for adults and children, active member of PEN, helped publish Jerzy Kosinski, writes and si...

Randall Stross in the New York Times of 27 January 2008 quoted Mr Jobs as saying that Amazon’s Kindle book reader would never fly: “It d...

Paul Litterick says that Nick Lowe will be on Kim Hill tomorrow. So here is Nick Lowe with Wilco and   Mavis Staples rehearsing the B...

Holiday’s in Victorian England: images of the past has had it’s cover image photoshopped on Amazon to remove the errant apostrophe but ...