Philip Hensher

The writer was right. Until August isn’t worthy of him and should probably have been left in the archives

People always assume that no one in inner London has much idea of the seasons. But everyone who goes to the park notices some annual events

‘Some people shouldn’t be allowed to have dogs’

It’s baffling

I don’t feel my life will be complete until I’ve spent a week constructing, say, Hagia Sophia and the Centre Pompidou out of several thousand plastic bricks