Child’s Play in Paradise: Jumeirah Maldives Olhahali Island
Enough has been written about the Maldives there’s almost nothing one can say without trawling…
Yearly Archives: 2022
Timeless Grandeur with GlenDronach
This is real. This is really happening. After two and a half years in which…
Behind
Behind isn’t the kind of restaurant where you do anything as boring as sit down…
Glyndebourne Tour: The Marriage of Figaro
With autumn well and truly upon us, you might be tempted to think that the…
The Double Red Duke
The Double Red Duke in Oxfordshire might look like a classic Cotswold stone inn architecturally,…
This England: The Benefits of a Classical Education
In the first of a new series of reviews and discourses on film and television,…
Glyndebourne on Tour: In Conversation with Soraya Mafi
Following its critically-acclaimed 2022 festival, Glyndebourne takes its productions on tour with the new La Boheme and…
Shrines of Gaiety
One thing you know when you pick up a novel by Kate Atkinson is that…
Middle Eight
The artist formerly known as Boothby and I are in the QT basement club (‘where…
A City by Song: Van Morrison’s Belfast
Coming down from Downpatrick, stopping off at St. John’s Point, out all day birdwatching. And…
Langan’s
Of all the restaurateurs that you probably wouldn’t have wanted to meet, the late Peter…
The Nici, Bournemouth
It’s no easy feat to transform a tired British seafront landmark into a hotspot for…