Over recent years there have been rumblings of an Ideal revival, possible as a feature film, but for its anniversary it’s ...

I love that our patron saint in England is St George. What nationality do you think he was? Not English of course. St George ...

At the last, in bridling against the bridal, it subversively snatches the bouquet. With its flattened vowels and rounded ...

This is the only time I will spend in this room This is the only time I will speak to this person ...

As a student of literature picking up a modern novel involving interwar lavish consumerism in the West, I’m bracing myself for something rigidly estranged from the likes of Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

And so to the hottest dining ticket in town, Bangkok Diners Club, upstairs in the Edinburgh Castle pub in Manchester’s Ancoats. It’s a new venture from husband and wife team Ben and Bo Humphreys from ...

“Thank you for taking a photo of that object. I chose that one,” says a voice over my shoulder in the new South Asia gallery at Manchester Museum. A ‘co-curator’ of the exhibition – one of 30 members ...

Whenever the English gather, the talk soon comes round to the best ‘full English’. Along with the ubiquitous Sunday Roast, this collection of eggs, bacon, sausage and beans with various add-ons such ...

Sometimes of an evening I trip down to the local corner shop for wine and cake. Paul’s in Stubbins contains a veritable smorgasbord of home-made goodies. I’m familiar with a lot of them – you don’t ...

Russell T Davies, it’s fair to say, has the gift of the gab. A master of the press release soundbite and its carnivalesque come-hither call, more importantly he’s an eloquent and impassioned disputant ...

When Bonnie Raitt was a young girl, she was enthralled by the power and charisma of such blues and folk greats as John Lee Hooker and Sippie Wallace, modelling her own music and guitar-playing on them ...

Flickering on the screen of an old BlackBerry, its landscape display diminishing them in scale, they could, at first glance, be part of any number of blazing bodies – logs burning with homely warmth ...