A mid-July morning on Scotland’s Moray Coast near Inverness: the sky was pewter, the sea mountainous, the rain horizontal.

Writing is our testament, granting anyone a way to defect from the present, and providing even the godless with a faith that ...

Fifty years ago, Patrick Hutber, then former city editor of The Sunday Telegraph, wrote a weekly article under the headline: “Improvement means Deterioration”. Hutber’s Law stipulated that if a ...