Columnists

Do the black and white thing: Exemplary 'goodness' is depicted twice in Michael Haneke's film 'The White Ribbon'

Tom Sutcliffe: It's about as good as it gets

The Week In Culture

Inside Columnists

Paul Vallely: 'In shops here, the level of attentiveness borders on a free social service'

Thursday, 19 November 2009

Home And Away

Jaci Stephen: 'In LA you might as well buy a cabbage as a peach for all the difference in taste'

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Way Out West

Alex James: My heart was singing in the rain

Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Rural Notebook

Christopher Maume: 'The British National party is right about one thing: the country is filling up'

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

I am not a fan of the BNP, honest. Nick Griffin, patron saint of the benighted and cross-eyed, is as about as high on my list of People To Hug Before I Die as Melanie Phillips or the Grimes twins are. By way of consolation, they all enjoy exalted placings in the list of People To Hang Before I Die. But the British National Party are right about one thing: the country is filling up. Bill Bryson could have called his love letter to Britain Notes from a Small Island With Too Many People, Especially in London.

Tom Sutcliffe: The over-complicated life of Belle de Jour

Tuesday, 17 November 2009

I wonder how many men looked at the photograph of Dr Brooke Magnanti – who outed herself the other day as the real Belle de Jour, blogger horizontale – and thought to themselves, "Yeah ... well I reckon I'd pay £300 for that". I know I did – and it's not because I'd pay £300 for that.

Dom Joly: You can bet everyone else is a winner

Monday, 16 November 2009

Weird World of Sport: If I arrive in a Rolls-Royce, there's always somebody landing in their helicopter

DJ Taylor: This could get ugly

Sunday, 15 November 2009

The bottom line: Moves for more secret inquests, Mrs Honecker’s lack of regret, arrogant banks and instant sackings might get you down, but at least Sir Jeremy is fighting back

Dom Joly: One snip, lots of smiles – and a big cry for help

Sunday, 15 November 2009

It's only gone and happened again. I pop out for an evening in London and wham – the vet's snippers strike again. I meet Stacey for lunch at our beloved eaterie, Made By Bob in Cirencester. Lunch is friendly and happy – and then she hits me with the sucker punch.