Melanie McDonagh

Even after two days of rancorous debate about Henry Nowak's death, it's still instructive, for those of a strong stomach, to read the court proceedings

Even after two days of rancorous debate about Henry Nowak’s death, it’s still instructive, for those of a strong stomach, to read the court proceedings that ended with the conviction of Vickrum Digwa for the murder of 18-year-old Henry Nowak in Southampton. One element was the footage that Henry took on his phone of the encounter that ended his life. He was going home from an evening with friends from the Southampton University football team at a nightclub when he encountered Digwa, finishing a Deliveroo shift.

Gabriel Wilson OSB’s account of beekeeping combines practical knowledge, monastic insight and a profound attentiveness to the natural world

In the artistic pecking order, illustration long languished behind what were seen as the fine arts, even though it was the one art form that most of us would come across every single day. Not unrelated to the status issue, illustration came to be...

PIle ’em high… and perhaps take some binoculars to see the brushstrokes in that painting 10 feet above your head

Poor baby Preston didn't have much of a start in life. His mother Sarah, now 42, was jailed aged 14 for the 1998 torture and murder of a pensioner.

Poor baby Preston didn’t have much of a start in life. His mother Sarah, now 42, was jailed aged 14 for the 1998 torture and murder of a pensioner. Preston was, justifiably, taken from her after birth. Given these unpropitious circumstances, it was...

Imprisoned and sentenced to death under Albania’s communist regime, Cardinal Ernest Simoni remains a compelling witness to faith, endurance and the supernatural

Locations for The White Lotus season four are on the Côte d’Azur, flitting from Cannes to Monaco to Saint-Tropez. Melanie McDonagh visited two hotels in the region

Acquired during the Fourth Crusade and preserved through revolution, the relic venerated at Amiens Cathedral is among the most extraordinary survivals of the medieval Christian world