5+ hour, 24+ min ago  (693+ words) Les Liaisons Dangereuses brilliantly displays the power of emotions'New Statesman In the early 1780s, on the "le-d'Aix, a small island off France's western coast, Pierre Choderlos de Laclos began writing his best-known work, Les Liaisons Dangereuses. It would have been difficult…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago  (215+ words) The larger-than-life Strictly Come Dancing star is captivating as he injects life into the new production of the show At what point do you know you've done enough with your theatre production? Is it after you sell-out on all nights…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (345+ words) A dispatch from the front line in Rutland Nothing much happens here " other than a mild backlash against the arrival of its first McDonald's six years ago (a drive-thru, no less), the recent discovery of a giant "sea dragon" ichthyosaur…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago  (254+ words) Overweight, overpriced and overheated " it was a 12-ton metaphor Even then, that will not be that for quite some time. Generally, TfL requires bus companies to supply their own buses, but it took the unusual step of buying 1,000 of these…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (136+ words) This column is our weekly pub review, written by pintsmen, women and children across the nation. Suggestions to [email protected] It is easy to dismiss the Corner House, situated as it is just off a roundabout opposite the Worthing branch of…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago  (207+ words) Literature still looks to the clergy for answers From the storyteller's point of view, the failure in question can be treated satirically, comedically, tragically. It may be presented as an implicit subversion of any possible claim to authoritative insight or…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (1316+ words) Matt Goodwin's intellectual suicide'New Statesman Let's get this out of the way early: Matt Goodwin's new self-published book, Suicide of a Nation, is bad. Very bad. In fact, even for the increasingly gimcrack world of the British right, it is…...

2+ mon, 1+ week ago  (178+ words) The religion may have transformed every corner of the globe, but it was also radically changed in the process Recognising that the war for Islam was, more often than not, a war within Islam demands from historians a kind of…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1146+ words) If it were ours, we'd defend it like vaudeville and variety. England is the home of the music hall and, to look at " I mean this in the most distant possible sense; I've obviously never watched it " t If it…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1199+ words) British snobs and baton-wielding police officers in continental Europe have something in common. Both share a low opinion of English football fans. The clich" goes that football is a gentleman's game British snobs and baton-wielding police officers in continental Europe…...