Life

Scots has been used as a spoken and a literary language

For too long has Spirit been the punchline of hastily written Saturday Night Live jokes

Gibraltar is no longer a colonial outpost. It feels modern, cosmopolitan

As the milk and sugar of summer, seersucker is best enjoyed full gulp

The mural painted on my envisioned Thelonious Monk Alley would feature images of little Thelonious in his fireman’s cap, surrounded by firemen, and the adult Thelonious at the piano

Italians, normally so keen to hug and kiss each other, have been forced into social distancing, and it has given the wine windows a new lease of life

My tangled web of basket weavers

In his own mind, every celebrity fancies himself or herself as a Philosopher King- or Queen-in-Waiting

If you have lived in Bath since the beginning of the pandemic you might not have noticed the changes so viscerally

Politicians as a class are almost without exception second- or third-rate people

Four hundred years have passed since Seville was the greatest and most glamorous city on earth

To read is to invite derision, especially if you grew up in a working-class town

Tudor architecture marked the first instance of Anglo domesticity recognizable today

Should the state of New York be divided into two states?

The best way to see Lake Geneva is from the water