2+ hour, 13+ min ago  (239+ words) Granta, pp. 232, "14. 99 What follows is really rather beguiling. It charts their friendship up to a major exhibition and a life change. Baume is excellent at questioning herself and her motives, wondering if she actually only has acquaintances and whether an…...

2+ hour, 34+ min ago  (542+ words) On Wednesday, the largest traditional Catholic order of priests in the world, the Society of Saint Pius X, consecrated four bishops without a papal mandate. The Vatican's response was swift and brutal. Today, it announced that not only have the…...

5+ hour, 2+ min ago  (211+ words) Bodley Head, pp. 365, "25 Moving on to the disabled in general, I was interested rather than offended by the names we have been called in the past. "Impotent" and "monstrous" stand out; "cripple" is deemed a bad word here " but I…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago  (586+ words) There were many reasons why 2016 was a strange year. One of them was the halfhearted effort by people on both sides of the Atlantic to try to understand why voters had voted the "wrong" way in the Brexit referendum and…...

7+ hour, 40+ min ago  (118+ words) Sure enough, Trump has retreated before achieving any of his objectives. I have plenty of company in assessing the details of this "memorandum" as far worse than the state of play before the US and Israel dropped a single bomb…...

10+ hour, 50+ min ago  (141+ words) To our national shame, rather than being celebrated, Rowling is all too often overlooked or shunned By any metric, Rowling should be a national treasure. Her Harry Potter books have been translated into 85 languages, and over 600 million copies have been…...

16+ hour, 32+ min ago  (393+ words) Can there be, in Britain, such a thing as a destination Greek taverna? There are some cases where proximity is the most important thing: gyms, caf's, defibrillators. A Greek taverna falls into this category. All you need is harmless food…...

16+ hour, 32+ min ago  (18+ words) The Spectator...

16+ hour, 32+ min ago  (653+ words) It's 50 years since an assortment of scruffy youths from the leafy suburb of Bromley, the grimy streets of Finsbury Park and under the Westway gathered together, often in art colleges, to form "punk'. They will be celebrated this summer " but…...

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (647+ words) Berlin is currently convulsed by a culture war " and one all too familiar in a country and capital which, nine decades after World War Two ended, can still never seem to escape the long shadow of its Nazi past. Just…...