Judi Dench’s Q&A: “Shakespeare’s rhythms are the beating of my heart”
The actor on Jennie Lee, Elizabeth Fry and her annoyance at those who throw away food on the sell-by date.
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Christmas in Hamburg
At the city’s festive markets shopping is not the objective: it is to meet friends and sip Glühwein.
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Can podcasts and acupressure get me through the icy winter months?
Perhaps the level of well-being we all seek is incompatible with being human.
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At its midpoint, this season is shaping up to be one of football’s oddest
So far we’ve seen Dickensian midfielders, a blizzard of coaching jobs, and the return of peep-hole socks.
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A bluffer’s guide to rural politics
Initially a reluctant candidate for a Herefordshire Council seat, I discovered the camaraderie, conflict and thrill of local elections.
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Inside Elvis’s dollhouse
Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla Presley biopic shows how the singer groomed his teenage wife – but his obsession with young girls…
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Timothée Chalamet is a sweeter – but weaker – Wonka
The Warner Bros origin story for the chocolatier adds songs and removes nastiness from Roald Dahl’s tale – for the…
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To catch a catfish
How one detective took on an international network of romance fraudsters.
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Notes on trying
For readers and writers, novels require enormous effort. Why do we persist in seeking meaning in their pages?
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Dispatches from the land of Long Covid
My search for a cure took me into the strange waters of wellness.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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The secrets of frost
Frost doesn’t merely transform our surroundings – it alters the kind of attention we pay to the world.
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My reckoning with charismatic Christianity
There is an emptiness that the Church says only God can fill. But is He there?
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This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment
Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.
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The NS Poem: Sabotage
A new poem by Rebecca Farmer.
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Lexicon of loss
The history of the elegy reveals how the poetry of grief has the power to trouble, console and unite.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948
Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.
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Amid multiple crises, EU leaders cling to a misplaced optimism
Economic turmoil is on the horizon – the scariest of all outcomes for Europe would be a Trump victory.
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Across Europe, far-right parties are rising
As the continent undergoes a rightwards shift, the liberal dream of open borders is dying.
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Robert Jenrick furthers his own migration to the upper Tory ranks
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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