Life
Spectator competition winners: a liquid lunch with Dante
In Competition No. 3300, you were invited to describe in verse a meal of your choice with a well-known poet,…
Wuthering Heights in Devon: the Pilchard Inn, Burgh Island, reviewed
The Pilchard Inn sits at the entrance to Burgh Island, a minute tidal island off the coast of south Devon.…
Is Uefa just useless – or is it worse than that?
It’s not clear how many readers of this journal will be affected, but anyone planning a stag weekend in Prague…
Men like me are sitting targets
I have a confession to make: I’m a sitzpinkler. That’s the German word for men who sit down when they…
I have found heaven in West Cork
A bay mare was standing over a foal curled up sleeping at her feet. Yawning and struggling to keep her…
Goodbye, my dear Low Life colleague
He bore his death sentence more gracefully than most heroes I’ve read about. As the end approached, his columns showed…
Aussie life
As the head of a dynasty which owes its wealth and influence to military aggression, white supremacy and colonial exploitation,…
Language
Have you come across the word ‘transabled’? This is a new one on me, and I find it a frightening…
Tinta de Toro: the Spanish red that helped Columbus make waves
I am assured that this is not a legend. But a few years ago, an Irishman’s life was twice saved…
How to bag the best spot in the supermarket car park
Our local Sainsbury’s, though admirable in every other way, has a slightly inflated estimate of the disabled population of Seven-oaks,…
