Thursday 21 August 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Style and Travel

The email whooshes into the inbox. I click it open, thinking, ooh, goodie, let’s have a look ... ‘Save the Date’ it orders. My heart sinks.

Sitting on a rocket

Sitting on a rocket

Henry Sands goes powerboating in Malta

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

The king-makers

The king-makers

James Sherwood apprises the Savile Row tailors who dress royalty

Arts

Too much information

Too much information

Blood and Guts (BBC4)

Poverty of the soul

Poverty of the soul

Heart and Soul (BBC World Service); Gun and Knife Crime: Seeking Solutions (BBC Radio 4)

Books

Life and Letters

Allan Massie remembers Simon Gray (1936-2008)

The great deception continues

The great deception continues

Out of Mao’s Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of New China by Philip Pan

Style & Travel

Déjeuner sur l’herbe

Déjeuner sur l’herbe

Lindy Woodhead is nostalgic about picnics

Holidays: the ninja way

Holidays: the ninja way

Matthew d’Ancona’s young sons show him a good time in Cyprus

In this week's issue

Economic recovery plan? Forget it, Gordon

The Prime Minister’s survival is pinned on a September ‘relaunch’ to ease the voters’ economic woes. But, says Martin Vander Weyer, each door through which Brown tries to escape his predicament slams in his face. His room for manoeuvre is negligible

Martin Vander Weyer

Georgia sheds light on the mind of Cameron

James Forsyth says that the Tory leader is more immersed in foreign policy than first seemed probable. Unlike Brown, he has ambitions as an international leader

James Forsyth

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