Has anti-smacking advocacy gone too far?

Miniature paintings suit the modern world — we live in a miniaturised world

The characters in Dickens's novels have voracious appetites — but how did Dickens dine?

There's nothing to stop us bringing back hereditary peerages — reflecting lifetimes of success rather than political cronyism

The Army is short of new recruits, but retention of personnel is a much bigger problem

'My particular bugbear is that inherently redundant phrase “forward planning”. Ever tried ‘backward planning’?'

"Many of our politicians appear much more at ease when condemning the far Right than they ever are when talking about Islamists"

Why is the UK's growth rate so low and how can we solve the problem?

It's 119 years since the last southbound main line to London was built — will HS2 do any better than the Great Central Railway?

Encores are an adornment to concert life — like a dessert, completing a meal, or an after-dinner mint