Eavesdropping on the great debate about torture

‘I sympathise with London motorists who are exasperated with massive packs of cyclists’

We over-humanise animals while underestimating plants. But it’s the latter that do all the work for us

The once-reviled Peeping Tom has been re-released into a world where torture and porn barely register

"To keep entire communities in enforced idleness is to exclude them from full participation in humanity"

A hard-drinking, physically violent workaholic, Joseph Blackburne was the master of the simultaneous display

Men Should Weep is not worthy of the talents of the National. The Rivals, however, is blessed relief

The BBC correspondent may have launched ‘emotional journalism’ but he has returned to reportage

‘Historical analogies provide us with a route through a chaotically frightening present’

‘A country that used to rule the waves now cannot even fit an aircraft-carrier with aircraft. We have to share with the French’