Other Men's Flowers

Adrian Leppard, assistant chief constable of Kent, has said that the £50 million raid on the cash depot in Tonbridge " had been planned...

So how many copies of Prince Charles' personal, highly confidential, journal did he send round? According to the Observer, " only 1...

Can anyone doubt that the Punjab Rural Olympics are much more fun than all that chilly sliding around in Turin?

…A dream of love to warm the winter nights A draught of wine to end the summer days… When my sister telephoned me to ask me if I knew the or...

It has been reported that bonking has a new meaning: hitting an object really hard with your snowboard. Rubbish! This meaning is exactly as...

"Mother, I want you to meet Father" [Nicolas Bentley did the drawing]

• Here’s a picture by the distinguished American photo-journalist Ed KASHI . • The town of KASHI in Xinjiang, SW China (pop.174,570) was ...

Editing of Wikipedia’s page on St Valentine's Day has been temporarily disabled as a result of recent vandalism, but the page is still ...

In the years before they liked to be called actors, successful actresses led the kind of life in which flowers and champagne played a major...

So, after nine years, one trial, two appeals, two retrials and five million pounds for our learned friends, Sion Jenkins has been acquitted ...

The Danish cartoon of Mohammed wearing a bomb on his head was crudely drawn and not in the least funny, a good enough reason for not publish...

Matisse called this rather hectic painting Luxe, calme et volupté , a line in Baudelaire’s mystical poem L’Invitation au Voyage . How regret...

Some years ago the Japanese president of the international organisation I was working for asked me to employ in my office a young executive—...

The illustrations which have appeared in Other Men’s Flowers lately have been rather dreary, so for a nice change here is a picture of a Py...

The mere wearing of a silly hat is not, in itself, funny: there must be some ancillary cause of mirth before we fall about laughing. When ou...

Cecil Frances Alexander (1818-1895) was the daughter of a major in the Royal Marines and wrote Hymns for Little Children , including All Th...

I was listening to the news with rather less than half an ear, in the way that we used to listen to announcements about new peace initiative...

You must imagine this spoken at a cocktail party in a gushing voice : Oh, you live in the North, do you? How super. What fun. You don’t by a...

Last week I published a pretty picture of a roast loin of pork. A friend who lives in Ireland commented that it looked like a diseased liver...

Unsolicited commercial email is what the manufacturers of canned spiced ham would like us to call it, but everyone has called it spam ever...