Christopher Howse

Pope Leo is not the first pontiff to quote JRR Tolkien. In his first encyclical the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Return of the King urging people to set about “uprooting the evil in the fields that we...

Sir Conor Burns has written something very funny – no doubt funnier than he thought. Boris Johnson, he said, described Theresa May as "being like

A new handbook brings to life the ancient churches of Norwich

From a used water bottle to a torturous talking clock, I’m not sure I’ll be buying anything for the house from the 258th Summer Exhibition

Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as ‘London’s rudest landlord’. There, I think, he mingled self-publicity and self-defence. People didn’t go to the Coach and Horses, Soho, to be shouted at by him;...

Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as ‘London's rudest landlord'.

Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as ‘London’s rudest landlord’. There, I think, he mingled self-publicity and self-defence. People didn’t go to the Coach and Horses, Soho, to be shouted at by him;...

The US vice-president’s second memoir, Communion, has the same fiery quality as his first but without the raw impact

Christopher Howse has narrated this article for you to listen to. Norman Balon, who has died at the age of 99, missed the point when he defined himself as ‘London’s rudest landlord’. There, I think, he mingled self-publicity and self-defence. People...

Alec Clifton-Taylor first appeared on television aged 68 and was such a hit that he made three series on English towns.