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Radek Sikorski’s notebook: Goose-steppers in Oxford, and a drone in my garden

A college reunion can bring back some strange stories. Plus: My house and the people who photograph it

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

30 August 2014

9:00 AM

As the BA flight from Warsaw landed at Heathrow, I felt a little tremor of anxiety, though it wasn’t anything to do with fear of flying. I was here for the Pembroke College gaudy. I had never attended a reunion before, and I had doubts about it. What if the people I really liked didn’t show up? What if I didn’t remember somebody’s name, while they remembered me? Above all, did I really want to see a bunch of old people claiming to be my contemporaries?

It turned out to be a delight.

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Radek Sikorski is Poland’s minister for foreign affairs; he has written for The Spectator since the 1980s.

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