In our occasional feature we invite guests to select the six cultural links that might sustain them if, by some mischance, they were forced to spend eternity in a succession of airport departure lounges with only an iPad or similar device for company. Today's voyager is Owen Polley, who blogs as ... Read More...

Here’s another post from The Dabbler’s Most South- Westerly Tip of England Correspondent, Toby Ash, who has discovered in the midst of tropical gardens a delightful new place to read books and take in the sea views. Situated on the western side of Penzance’s lovely tropical garden, close to the ornate ... Read More...

My old school celebrated a special anniversary recently, which I dutifully attended. Stepping back to my days as a rather plump school librarian, I fondly recalled the privilege of precious moments spent huddled up in a cosy, heated corner ‘reading’ French and German fashion magazines. Said corner has since acquired ... Read More...

At Touching From a Distance (now incorporated into The Spectator), guest poster Prof David McMenemy offers various arguments for the importance of public libraries. At least, he talks a lot about ‘learning spaces’ and ‘vital cogs in the wheels of societal development’ and says things like "in a digital world ... Read More...