Not many pubs have seats designed for gazing outwards, but not many pubs have a view like the Free Trade Inn. Perched high on the Tyne’s northern bank, it faces upstream as the river runs between Gateshead and Newcastle, taking in the sweep of the...
A year ago, on Yom Kippur 2025, the Chief Rabbi, Sir Ephraim Mirvis, stood at the pulpit of a synagogue in North London to lead Ne’ilah, the concluding service of the fast day. It was a service he had led every year at this same synagogue,...
It was a man called Nigel in Clacton-on-Sea who explained to me how important PS Waverley is. Not the one you might be thinking of, but Nigel Brown, a rather more placid presence in the Essex resort, who spent a decade on the council and even...