Elizabeth Roberts on books, ships, shoes, sealing wax etc

Where were we?   Life is too short for what my friend David calls 'war stories' or others call 'organ recitals'.  All...

It is time I relieved myself of a feeling of irritation caused by Will Self. I put my hand up at a public meeting a couple of years ago and ...

A despatch from H.M. Consul-General, Muscat, to the Foreign Secretary, Lord Home:                                                       ...

Leo Tolstoy - UKIP supporter? Ahead of BBC Radio 4's whole New Year's Day adaptation of 'War and Peace' tomorrow, it is ...

Church bells Sometimes it's the little things that get to you. A  misplaced apostrophe. A wrong emphasis. On TV last night a WWI dra...

Dumfries hospital outpatients reception It is T S Eliot's birthday today, an excuse to revisit The Waste Land and the Four Quartets....

 Pope Francis and his cricket XI A wonderful day on Friday at the inaugural charity cricket match in aid of Global Freedom Network, the ...