Friday 9 January 2009

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Peter Hoskin

Pete suggests


Style and Travel

Back in the day, we seemed to suck with one mouth. Spangles. Space Dust. Refreshers. Every kid’s gob of the...

Not just for Christmas

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees

A man for  Four Seasons

A man for Four Seasons

Bear Grylls is in the lap of luxury at the George V Hotel in Paris

Mind your manners

Mind your manners

Jeremy Clarke takes a cruise up the Nile and finds the spirit of service to be almost unnerving

Arts

Community living

Community living

Kate Chisholm reviews recents radio broadcasts

Recent  loves

Recent loves

Marcus Berkmann presents his records of 2008

Books

Getting the detail right

Evelyn Waugh told Nancy Mitford he was ‘surprised to find’ that Proust ‘was a mental defective. He has absolutely no sense of time.’

Was the Abdication necessary?

Was the Abdication necessary?

The Eagle & the Crown, by Frank Prochaska

Style & Travel

Not just for Christmas

Not just for Christmas

Matthew Dennison extols the virtues of a rare but distinguished breed

Latin lover

Latin lover

Colombia has Clemency Burton-Hill weak at the knees


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In this week's issue

The natural order of things

Matt Ridley says that Darwinian selection explains the appearance of seemingly ‘designed’ complexity throughout the world — not just in biology but in the economy, technology and the arts

Matt Ridley

Onward Christian Zionists

Rod Liddle on the crazed, quasi-fascist evangelicals in Britain and America who believe war in Gaza heralds the Second Coming of Christ

Rod Liddle

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