Diary

Diary

5 November 2015 3:00 pm

I had only experienced great loss when my mother died. It was desperately harrowing, but not as harrowing as the…

Diary

29 October 2015 3:00 pm

I’m counting ‘Wows!’ Suddenly everyone is using this irritating expletive expressing incredulity, amazement and nothing at all. I’ve heard it…

Barry Humphries’s diary: My war with ‘Wow!’

29 October 2015 9:00 am

I’m counting ‘Wows!’ Suddenly everyone is using this irritating expletive expressing incredulity, amazement and nothing at all. I’ve heard it…

Boris Johnson’s diary: Amid the China hype, remember Japan

24 October 2015 9:00 am

Frankly I don’t know why the British media made such a big fat fuss last week when I accidentally flattened…

Boris Johnson’s diary: Amid the China hype, remember Japan

22 October 2015 2:00 pm

Frankly I don’t know why the British media made such a big fat fuss last week when I accidentally flattened…

N.M. Gwynne’s diary: Old names worth dropping

17 October 2015 9:00 am

As I get older (and my 74th birthday is now close), I get deeper and deeper into nostalgia. I do…

N.M. Gwynne’s diary: Old names worth dropping

15 October 2015 2:00 pm

As I get older (and my 74th birthday is now close), I get deeper and deeper into nostalgia. I do…

Edmund de Waal’s diary: Selling nothing, and why writers need ping-pong

10 October 2015 9:00 am

On the top landing of the Royal Academy is the Sackler Sculpture Corridor, a long stony shelf of torsos of…

Edmund de Waal’s diary: Selling nothing, and why writers need ping-pong

8 October 2015 2:00 pm

On the top landing of the Royal Academy is the Sackler Sculpture Corridor, a long stony shelf of torsos of…

Warm and cuddly? (Photo: Getty)

Piers Morgan’s diary: What I have in common with Jeremy Corbyn – and Katie Hopkins

3 October 2015 9:00 am

Party conference season is the most pointless waste of money, time and liver quality ever devised. I attended these sweaty,…

Warm and cuddly? (Photo: Getty)

Diary

1 October 2015 1:00 pm

Party conference season is the most pointless waste of money, time and liver quality ever devised. I attended these sweaty,…

Jeremy Corbyn isn’t like Caligula’s horse – he’s like Caligula

26 September 2015 8:00 am

Jeremy Corbyn has been compared to plenty of people over the past few months — a geography teacher, Michael Foot,…

Diary

24 September 2015 1:00 pm

Jeremy Corbyn has been compared to plenty of people over the past few months — a geography teacher, Michael Foot,…

Chris Mullin’s diary: Murdoch’s men couldn’t face even a fictional Corbyn victory

19 September 2015 8:00 am

With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…

Diary

17 September 2015 1:00 pm

With four days to go until the result of Labour’s leadership election, a call from the Sunday Times. Would I…

Max Hastings’s diary: How sporting tourists play into Nicola Sturgeon’s hands

12 September 2015 9:00 am

During our annual odyssey around the Scottish Highlands, I read Tears of the Rajas, Ferdinand Mount’s eloquent indictment of imperial…

Diary

10 September 2015 1:00 pm

During our annual odyssey around the Scottish Highlands, I read Tears of the Rajas, Ferdinand Mount’s eloquent indictment of imperial…

Tristram Hunt’s diary: The rainy glories of Devon – and a cold political climate

5 September 2015 9:00 am

‘Devon, Devon, Devon/ Where it rains six days out of seven.’ Nothing beats a British seaside holiday. And north Devon…

Diary

3 September 2015 1:00 pm

‘Devon, Devon, Devon/ Where it rains six days out of seven.’ Nothing beats a British seaside holiday. And north Devon…

Val McDermid’s Diary: Facing 3,000 choices at the Edinburgh festival

29 August 2015 9:00 am

There are many good reasons for being in Edinburgh in August, when the population doubles and nobody looks twice if…

Diary

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

There are many good reasons for being in Edinburgh in August, when the population doubles and nobody looks twice if…

Andrew Marr’s diary: The summer of Corbyn — and other things we didn’t see coming

22 August 2015 9:00 am

This is the Corbyn summer. From the perspective of a short holiday, my overwhelming feeling is one of despair at…

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20 August 2015 1:00 pm

This is the Corbyn summer. From the perspective of a short holiday, my overwhelming feeling is one of despair at…

A.N. Wilson’s diary: VJ Day and the Virginia Woolf Burger Bar

15 August 2015 9:00 am

Should we have celebrated VJ Day? Hearing the hieratic tones of the Emperor Hirohito on Radio 4 the other day,…

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13 August 2015 1:00 pm

Should we have celebrated VJ Day? Hearing the hieratic tones of the Emperor Hirohito on Radio 4 the other day,…