Alice Thomson

London

Columnist and Interviewer at The Times

Columnist/Interviewer on The Times. Presenter with @RSylvesterTimes of podcast Past Imperfect. Author: The Singing Line/ What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Young

Articles

How Denmark’s left sent migrants packing

4 days ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson

Danish fashion is having a moment: billowing blue shirts, baggy shorts, black biker boots, not to mention cold swimming, cool Nordic blondes, fermented food and children playing street games. Biking around Copenhagen last weekend, this felt like a rare European country at ease with itself. Men kissed, students worked in cafés; smiling pensioners sipped alcohol-free beer. It was hard not to feel they’d cracked it as I parked my bike and walked away without locking up.
Tristram Hunt: the man who opened the V&A’s Aladdin’s cave

6 days ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson

“Yes, yes, yes, yes,” says the usually languid Tristram Hunt pacing around the new V&A East Storehouse, pointing out exquisite, embroidered kimonos, an Iranian astrolabe, Nepalese poisoned arrows, wooden skis and a Vivienne Westwood corset. His excitement is palpable as he prowls the old Broadcast Centre in the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park at Stratford and breaks into a grin as large as the V&A’s Tippoo’s Tiger as he pounces on another exhibit. “It’s sublime, isn’t it?”He’s right.
With every tax, Reeves does more damage

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson
Διευθυντής Βρετανικού Μουσείου στους The Times: "Θα θέλαμε να έχουμε μια καινοτόμο συνεργασία με την Ελλάδα για τα γλυπτά του Παρθενώνα"

2 weeks ago | parapolitika.gr | Alice Thomson

Ο Νίκολας Κάλιναν κοιτάζει έξω από το παράθυρο του γραφείου του και μετρά τους επισκέπτες που εισέρχονται στο Βρετανικό Μουσείο. «Πέρυσι είχαμε 6,5 εκατομμύρια επισκέπτες από όλο τον κόσμο. Αυτό σε κάνει να κοιτάζεις τα πράγματα με άλλη οπτική, ειδικά όταν τους βλέπεις να περιμένουν στην ουρά μέσα στη βροχή», ανέφερε. «Θέλω να βγω έξω τρέχοντας με μια ομπρέλα».
University crisis demands a complete reboot

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson
stolen treasures and a £1bn revamp

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson
My birth trauma: ‘Lying in blood, I thought I was going to die’

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson

‘I thought I was going to die, I was never going to see my daughter, and my husband would be a single dad,” Theo Clarke says, her nails gripping the sofa. “I was lying in blood and faeces, rushed by trolley into theatre and operated on without any general anaesthetic. The pain was excruciating.
Five parties - and I can’t vote for any them

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson

And then there were five. It’s astonishing how, in the space of a decade, we have gone from a two-party state to multiple options. It wasn’t only Nigel Farage who gained seats at the local elections: the Greens also surged and now have 859 councillors, even more than Reform’s 800-odd. Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats are the quiet winners of Middle England, controlling 40 councils. Only the two main players, the Tories and Labour, weren’t celebrating.
Police shared photos of my dead daughters. I can't forgive them

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson
The fight to protect women's bodies goes on

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Alice Thomson