Drawing from an uncomfortable position

Professor June Purvis I'm in the Jubilee Room (that's the Queen's Silver Jubilee in 1977), continuity Pugin, in the Houses o...

My idea of a mini-break is talking at a law-and-humanities seminar, so I've come to the Swedish university town of Örebro in lilac time....

Ne me quitte pas. I give oracular significance to the first thing I hear on Radio 3 each day. Jacques Brel is bang on target this mornin...

King James I, Mytens, National Portrait Gallery A staged playreading, rehearsed in the morning and performed in the afternoon, revives j...

Rebecca Steinfeld and her partner Charles Keidan are conscientious objectors to what they see as an historic patriarchy embedded in marriage...

Innocent until proven guilty. But if you are proved guilty, then ruled to be the victim of a miscarriage of justice, are you proved innoce...

As I leave the Japanese galleries I glimpse a masked dancer behind glass in a corridor. The convulsive anguish of her movements and the...