Friday 5 September 2008

 

The latest culture as recommended by our staff

Clemency Burton-Hill
Clemency Burton-Hill

Clemency suggests


Style and Travel

Lots, actually, says Jonathan Ray

The skinny on sportswear

The skinny on sportswear

James Sherwood seeks suitable jogging attire

Meet the real Donna

Meet the real Donna

Charlotte Metcalf finds a friend on the Mamma Mia! island

Acropolis now

Acropolis now

Henry Sands says Athens’s new museum is missing its Marbles

Sitting on a rocket

Sitting on a rocket

Henry Sands goes powerboating in Malta

Arts

Escapist froth

Escapist froth

Lost in Austen (ITV1)

Marriage  lines

Marriage lines

The Archers Omnibus (BBC Radio 4); Sunday Worship (BBC Radio 4); The Reunion (BBC Radio 4)

Books

Brave new writing

Brave new writing

Fifty years ago, Alan Sillitoe’s first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, changed the history of English fiction. Richard Bradford explains how.

The châtelaine and the wanderer

The châtelaine and the wanderer

In Tearing Haste: Letters between Deborah Devonshire and Patrick Leigh Fermor, edited by Charlotte Mosley

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

Labour’s punishment freaks are hounding honest citizens

Ross Clark says that far from keeping our streets safer or cleaner, the government’s new force of amateur policemen are ignoring the worst offenders and pursuing law-abiding innocents instead

Ross Clark

‘Whoever killed Benazir wants to kill me’

Christina Lamb interviews the husband of the late Benazir Bhutto, Asif Ali Zardari, who hopes to be named President of Pakistan this Saturday

Christina Lamb

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