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I'm deep inside the Forest of Dean – a former royal hunting ground in Herefordshire popular with the Tudors – in search of watery wildlife. It's a crisp April morning and the sky is piercingly blue. Ancient oaks cloaked in ivy and moss seem sprung from a fairytale. The forest floor is blanketed in bluebells and dog's mercury. Cherry blossom falls silently like snow. I stop to munch on a lilac cuckooflower – affectionately known as 'lady's smock' – which has the same fiery flavour as wasabi. Having recently relocated from North Africa, blackcaps – the nig...

Reflecting on the fate of the OceanGate submersible on its way to the Titanic, and the tragic loss of the five lives on board, I’m struck by how the news of its descent and the search for it has captured the world’s attention

Evelyn Waugh's book "Scoop" is a particularly good choice.

RECENTLY it’s been hard to ignore a certain whiff of frustration emanating from some European corridors of power over the war in Ukraine.

A gentle, modest man, Millar usually avoided controversy, but he strongly objected to the colourisation of old black and white films