Wednesday 20 August 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Leande De Lisle on Stephen Alford's biography of William Cecil

Arts

Doctor Who in Elsinore

Hamlet
Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon

Pick of Edinburgh

Dybbuk
King’s Theatre

Britt on Britt
Assembly Rooms

Surviving Spike
Assembly Rooms

Books

Dearly beloved Meg

Dearly beloved Meg

Sir Thomas More was the most dedicated of Henry VIII’s Chancellors before becoming the most famous of his victims.

Once a fashionable monster

Once a fashionable monster

The Great Bratby by Maurice Yacowar

Style & Travel

Home On The Grange

Home On The Grange

Matthew Dennison experiments with self-catering on a royal scale

Under the volcano

Under the volcano

Oscar Humphries explores Naples and the Amalfi coast

In this week's issue

Russia’s aggression in Georgia is a portent of perils to come

Philip Bobbitt says that the crisis reflects Russia’s determination to remain an old-fashioned nation state, dominating its region. Intellectual imagination will be needed to thwart that ambition: a recognition that the post-Cold War world needs new global institutions

Philip Bobbitt

For a footballer to sue for ‘negligence’ is like a climber suing a mountain

The case of Ben Collett, the footballer awarded £4.5 million for a tackle that ended his career, bodes ill for the game, says Rod Liddle. Blame the zeitgeist, not the judge

Rod Liddle

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