Harriet Beecher Stowe

Whipsmart: a new cliché that’s beginning to smart

24 October 2015 9:00 am

A friend of my husband’s asked me to explain why the usually impeccable critic Francine Stock had recently used the…

Ferdinand Mount's diary: Supermac was guilty!

25 January 2014 9:00 am

You have to hand it to Supermac. Fifty years after the event, he is still running rings round them. The…