Warning: Americans should not attempt to read the following post. Browsing through the archives of the unwieldy monster that TofE has become...

TofE's resident decent leftist Martpol has completed the long-promised essay which will finally destroy us nasty pro-war types. You can ...

A nine-year-old girl has become a TV chef in China . Shi Yulan, from Shanghai, is now writing her own recipe book, reports Qianjiang Evening...

This picture shows Tony Blair at the World Economic Forum at Davos , flanked, naturally enough, by the President of Liberia and... yes... Bo...

Pity poor Mrs Hitchens when her lads were bolshy teens! Peter Hitchens is the younger brother of the more successful Christopher and unsurpr...

TofE has finally been shifted to the new blogger format, having previously been too large and ponderous to attempt the leap, and a few odd t...

Today is a day for real-life reductio ad absurdams for some common blogworld bugbears. First comes news from Belgium about a school going th...

Amy Winehouse was kicked out of the Savoy Hotel’s bar – because her singing was upsetting the regular customers. Having attended the South ...

In today's Times: How to make my child feel like a black sheep Jamie Whyte I am white, my wife is black and our daughter, unsurprisingly...

A man who led a 30-year campaign for a new bypass has become the first person to crash on it . Jim Burley fought for the bypass in Pegswood,...

In Westminster Abbey By John Betjeman Let me take this other glove off As the vox humana swells, And the beauteous fields of Eden Bask b...

Of all the wars, the Crimean had the coolest uniforms .

The Dulwich Picture Gallery has an exhibition of the great Venetian artist Canaletto’s portraits of England, where he lived for nine years ...

Over at Diversely We Sail, Peter links to an outstanding article in the Guardian , where a decent leftist takes on “the disgrace of the ant...

The best way to get new people onto your blog is to comment on other people’s blogs. Most of the time they’ll click on your name to see whic...

A German driver caused chaos - after his satnav system directed him onto a tram line. The 46-year-old - who has not been named - tried to ba...