Moonballs from Planet Earth

Having spent much of the last week vegging out watching Wimbledon and the World Cup, I am struck by the contrast between the slick appeals s...

The assassination of Julius Caesar, when Casca’s hands spoke for him on the Ides of March, when et tu Brute felled Caesar, is surely one of...

CMJ’s son Robin retired from first class cricket a couple of weeks ago. I looked looked him up on Cricinfo , and came across a delicious lit...

One of the highlights of our family's trip to Paris this spring was this poster: It is prominently displayed all around the Paris metro ...

Gaudi’s work – incredible, phantasmagorical forms set within a city of perfectly straight lines and right angles – captures the spirit of a...

We were in Barcelona, with no specific agenda, thanks to a restless Icelandic volcano . A little Gaudi pilgrimage was noblesse oblige; my fa...

Would you want your brand to be associated with an icon, who, for centuries, has been associated with unearned privilege, wanton indulgence,...