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| My Night Camping In An 18th Century Church In England You might have heard of "glamping" — luxury or glam camping. Now, there's "champing," or camping inside churches that are no longer used for services. It's one of the newest camping options in England and, last fall, I decided to take my family champing in an 18th century church outside of Oxford.
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| Dreamers deadline to pass unnoticed as immigration reform stalls in Congress But on Monday in Washington that deadline will pass unceremoniously. Negotiations have all but ceased as the nation turns to face another crisis. Congress is under pressure to act on guns, the one issue as politically polarizing as immigration. "We're not optimistic and we're not holding our breath for ...
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| Who put the spark in Frankenstein's monster? Mary Shelley's Frankenstein: or the Modern Prometheus was published 200 years ago in 1818, when she was just 21. It was the result of a challenge laid down in 1816 by Lord Byron, when Shelley and her lover – later her husband – Byron's fellow poet Percy Bysshe Shelley were holidaying at Lake ...
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| Has the time come for a wealth tax in the UK? Think of the poll tax riots, the furore over Ed Miliband's mansion tax or George Osborne's "omnishambles" budget and the pickle he was in over the humble pasty. Usually the most resistance is reserved for wealth taxes, not least for their doom-laden names given by the media: no voter wants to pay for ...
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| Number of illegal raves in London doubles in a year One explanation for the rise is the rapid decline in the number of traditional venues, with more than half of all London clubs shutting down between 2005 and 2015, according to the Association of Licensed Multiple Retailers (ALMR). Since 2015, the number of licensed hospitality premises has dropped ...
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| The Shadow in the Garden: A Biographer's Tale – review In 1971, on a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford, with an aspiration to be a writer, and a juvenile poem published in the New Yorker, James Atlas had two teachers. He recalls wandering into the study of the first, Professor John Bayley, "in search of an assignment, or at the very least, human contact", and he ...
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| Europe's Troubled Auto Industry Will Be Keeping Its Collective Chin Up In Geneva European car makers will be putting on a brave face at the annual Geneva Car Show this week as they face new problems of a fast changing industry and more traditional ones, as forecasts for market prospects turned mixed. News President Trump threatened to slap tariffs on European car exports won't ...
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| Deal with SPD puts Angela Merkel back in Germany's driving seat The past five months have been political purgatory for Angela Merkel. Every day Germany spent without a proper government seemed to chip away at her authority and embolden her critics. Her power seemed provisional, her long-term fate uncertain. All that changed on Sunday with the SPD ...
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| Syrians flee government advances in eastern Ghouta A commander in the military alliance that backs President Bashar al-Assad said government forces needed to advance just a few more kilometers (miles) into the enclave to split it in two. A U.N. humanitarian official said 400,000 people in eastern Ghouta were being subjected to unacceptable"collective ...
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| David Ogden Stiers, actor who shone in M*A*S*H, dies at 75 No additional details were provided but Stubbs' agency tweeted that Stiers died at his home in Newport, Oregon, on Saturday. Stiers played the aristocratic Maj Charles Emerson Winchester III on M*A*S*H, beginning in its sixth season and replacing Larry Linville after he left the series. Stiers' character ...
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