Unmitigated England

Some time in 1987 I walked past the Penguin Bookshop in Camden. (Imagine that, a bookshop just for penguins.) I looked in the window and ...

I'm sorry if it's turning out to be a critics forum here, but whilst the BBC are showing English classics every Sunday it would s...

Looking at this third class train ticket, as one does on a wet Monday morning, I fell to musing about exactly how old it was. 'Third c...

I was wondering how D.H.Lawrence's classic would fare at the hands of the BBC on Sunday. Part of a season of films that will include ...

I do hope that as many of you as possible managed to get to the Ravilious exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery, superbly curated...

I show this picture because it's the only thing I've got to illustrate the Bloomsbury Group. (Apart from something that I'll ...

It's taken me the best part of forty years to get in here. Staring from afar and the occasional trespass until yesterday I saw ...