When the BBC’s China editor Carrie Gracie found out she was earning much less than her male colleagues, she decided to do the unthinkable: take on her employer‘Being mad and bad,’ Carrie Gracie writes towards the end of Equal, her account of a year-long struggle to get the BBC to...

A family history of the once-revered British tea shops is enthrallingOf all of this country’s bygone entertainments, the ones I most regret having missed are a night at a musical hall and tea at a Lyons Corner House. The latter’s disappearance is the more poignant, for it is a loss...