Charles Ellingworth

Hugh Grant is doing a great turn as Thorpe. Looking back on it, the whole tale was much more than ‘A very English Scandal’. It was high farc...

You can easily miss St Kilda. To find it, locate Harris and Lewis in the Outer Hebrides and then head out fifty miles into the Atlantic wher...

This is Empress Theodora’s speech to her husband Justinian and his council during the Nika Rebellion of 523. It must be up there with Church...

One of the sins of getting older is the moan that it was all better in the past. Most of the time it’s just different - and that applies to ...

The subject of a second referendum once the terms on offer are known seems to me not only democratic but also commons sense: we had no idea ...

I  These are the top shelves (note the plural) of a magazine shop in Miami Airport. Note the (slightly) ashamed way they (sort of) cover the...