Books Do Furnish a Little Freedom
'The cover of my new book was likely to shock Pakistani sensibilities but my local book store owner said he'd keep it under the
Josef Herman
From the 1940s onwards the Polish-born Jewish painter Josef Herman (1911-2000) was a significant figure in British art. His path here, however, was a
Obstacle Source
Government financial obstacles often start as interventions. But they have a habit of making life more difficult for the Chancellor and his aides
Planet Mirth
Matthew Sinclair's new book, Let Them Eat Carbon, rightly draws attention to the foibles of climate change policy, rather than the global warming debate
Unwrapping Iran
A few weeks ago I was searching for something in our basement and I came across two little memories of my childhood. When I
Finally Finished
The new Finlandia Hall in Helsinki has been transformed by a Japanese mystic with an ear for acoustics
Sea View
"Buy land," Mark Twain famously advised. "They've stopped making it." A century after Twain's death, according to an organisation called the Seasteading Institute (SI),
Turkish Thrash
Decadent expats in Istanbul may be morally outrageous but they add foreign flavour to the newest party city