By Gavin Sheridan - 23 June 13:00

The pub, the craic - drinking is part of the culture. But it's time Ireland counted the cost

By Julia Magnet - 23 June 13:00

Julia Magnet returns home to New York and finds that, under Mayor Bloomberg, the old diseases of ris

By William Skidelsky - 23 June 13:00

Stag weekends have seldom been seen as opportunities for fine dining

By Andrew Martin - 23 June 13:00

"Are you a taxi service?" I asked. "Yeaarss," said the voice guardedly

By Timothy Garton Ash - 16 June 13:00

Ignore the sceptics: the real Europe is foreign-language schools in Oxford and flights to Rome for £

By Simon Calder - 16 June 13:00

As recently as the 1970s, the Continent was a place of disease, oversexed men and dodgy lavatories.

By Andrew Hussey - 16 June 13:00

Liverpool, once despised and feared throughout Britain, has been crowned the European Capital of Cul

By Andrew Martin - 16 June 13:00

Preston town centre, a native told me, could be summed up as one great big pub

By Lauren Booth - 16 June 13:00

Somebody wolf-whistled me yesterday, but it was a bit too belated for my liking

By Andrew Martin - 09 June 13:00

The lank-haired lager swiller who put me off going back to Framlingham

By Lauren Booth - 09 June 13:00

Cross the threshold of the casino and you'll find miserable old desperadoes

By Jason Cowley - 02 June 13:00

Stranded in Abergavenny with a pack of Wolves and the odd Pig

By Andrew Martin - 02 June 13:00

Stuck on Darlington station again, and still no sign of Pete's mum's scarf

By Lilian Pizzichini - 26 May 13:00

East Enders - Lilian Pizzichini is moved by a celebration of age and wisdom in Aldgate

By Andrew Martin - 26 May 13:00

I like Essex because it stands out, and there aren't any posh people at all

By Julia Darling - 19 May 13:00

After years in the darkness, Newcastle is emerging as one of Britain's most vibrant cities. But, wri

By Andrew Martin - 19 May 13:00

"I'm off home!" the little boy called. "Ah," said the women, "bless!"

By Andrew Martin - 12 May 13:00

"Frame yourself" and other Yorkshire phrases my father taught me

By Andrew Martin - 05 May 13:00

The people of York are praying for free entry to God's house

By Darcus Howe - 28 April 13:00

In Tobago, I am told to move my beach chair to accommodate a white couple

By Justin Webster - 28 April 13:00

Observations on Blackpool: the Spanish view

By Ellie Levenson - 28 April 13:00

Observations on holiday trends

By Frances Stonor Saunders - 28 April 13:00

T S Eliot wept here, while Thomas Mann wrote a novel about a man with a hacking cough. A good place

By Andrew Martin - 28 April 13:00

When you walk through Kentish Town, you see ghosts on all sides

By Cristina Odone - 21 April 13:00

No wonder the Tuscans are depressed; they are overrun by the British

By Andrew Martin - 21 April 13:00

Lakes I love, punting I hate - even if you can punt you look like a wanker

By Jan Morris - 14 April 13:00

Jan Morris visits Manhattan for the 50th time, and finds it tinged with pathos and closer in spirit

By Andrew Martin - 14 April 13:00

It doesn't take much to prompt fantasies of tousled nights en route to Paris, writes Andrew Martin

By David Boyle - 07 April 13:00

Why is the country so short of money that we can't even rebuild the London Tube? Because we allow th

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