collected journalism

No nonsense in the kitchen

25 November 2023 9:00 am

The forthright food columnist Rachel Cooke has little patience with faddy eaters, ‘meditative’ kitchen tasks or the craze for Portuguese custard tarts

Billy Wilder — the making of a great film director

19 June 2021 9:00 am

Before Billy Wilder became the celebrated director of films such as Sunset Boulevard, Some Like It Hot and The Apartment…

Spectacular invective: Jonathan Meades lets rip about Boris and Brexit

17 April 2021 9:00 am

The title alludes to Jonathan Meades’s first collection of criticism, Peter Knows What Dick Likes, and to the album by…

Homage to Lyra McKee — the journalist I miss most

16 May 2020 9:00 am

In the two generations since Watergate, the image of the journalist has gone from that of plucky truth-seeker to sensationalist…