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Fantasy Dinner Party Part 4

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 4

Our leading journalists host a motley crew of characters from the past and present, while cartoonist Michael Heath draws the selfies

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 3

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 3

Our leading journalists host a motley crew of characters from the past and present, while cartoonist Michael Heath draws the selfies

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 2

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 2

Our leading journalists host a motley crew of characters from the past and present, while cartoonist Michael Heath draws the selfies

An Irish Girl in New York

An Irish Girl in New York

Joanna Bell fled London for a new life in the Big Apple and found kindly nuns and a surfeit of Bud Light

Nasser's Henchmen

Nasser's Henchmen

The story of the former Nazis who helped Egypt build a modern state after World War II

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 1

Fantasy Dinner Party Part 1

Our leading journalists host a motley crew of characters from the past and present, while cartoonist Michael Heath draws the selfies

Love in Longhand

Love in Longhand

When Baroness Trumpington, the Conservative politician, wooed her future husband, the late Alan Barker, it was in a long-distance world, devoid of Skype, Instagram or WhatsApp. Here her son, Adam Barker, shares some of her letters from that time

Smilin' the Blues Away

Smilin' the Blues Away

Jonathan Wingate discovers that after all these years Jools Holland’s energy and effervescent enthusiasm for a life in music remain undimmed

Pretty & Bold

Pretty & Bold

Bruce Anderson reminds us of the role played by Flora Macdonald in the aftermath of the Battle of Culloden

The Great British Picnic

The Great British Picnic

Tom Parker Bowles examines why we are obsessed with an inconvenient, counterintuitive dining ritual

Reggae's Philosopher

Reggae's Philosopher

The versatile virtuoso Horace Andy describes his life in music to David Katz, from riffing with Bob Marley to fronting Massive Attack

Saddam: My Part In His Downfall

Saddam: My Part In His Downfall

Thirty years-ago, a US-led coalition kicked the Iraqi Army out of Kuwait. Simon Mayall, who was a British staff officer in that momentous military action, tells Michael Karam about the war he very nearly missed

Vintage Masculinity

Vintage Masculinity

Reflecting on the passing of the dynamic, dashing yet dutiful Prince Philip, Mary Killen observes that the Queen may have worn the crown, but he definitely wore the trousers