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I don’t think I can remember a time when there have been so many scares about. They come at us…
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When some years ago I stopped having to go to an office, mainly because nobody wanted me to go to…
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It’s unusual for somebody promoting his own television programme to tell you not to watch it, but that’s what Evan…
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Winslow Hall is a large and handsome country house in Buckinghamshire, built in 1700 by Sir Christopher Wren, which Tony…
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Sometimes I say I’m Scottish, a claim often greeted with understandable derision. I was born in England, in Hertfordshire, went…
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Of the nine chickens I used to keep here in Northamptonshire only one survived the summer, and it was the…
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I have been, on and off, a lifelong smoker; but I gave up in January 2009 on the day of…
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Back from holiday in Italy, I look out of my kitchen window in Northamptonshire to find the country view blocked…
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As the holidays draw to a close, Italian newspapers have been reporting with perplexity and distaste on the outlandish behaviour…
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It’s August in Tuscany, and the market towns are eerily quiet, presumably because most of their inhabitants are off on…
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It’s much more stressful to live in the country than in a town. There are always threats of one kind…
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For a politician to draw attention to his own deficiencies is a desperate attempt to curry favour with the electorate…
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If I haven’t mentioned my poultry for a while, it’s because the subject has been too depressing. I had been…
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How amazing to have two former Anglican archbishops, George Carey of Canterbury and Desmond Tutu of South Africa, supporting Lord…
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One problem from which I am confident I don’t suffer is paedophilia. I have always liked picking up babies and…
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Tony Blair and Bill Clinton must be very happy about how they have fared since leaving political office, for each…
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At the time of the armistice of September 1943, when the kingdom of Italy formally transferred its allegiance from the…
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Last week was unusual. At the start of it, I was mooching about in the country in my customary way,…
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Although I live in the country in Northamptonshire, I go to London often — almost once a week — and…
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Shirley Williams has a point when she says that Lord Rennard’s alleged harassment of four female Lib Dem colleagues was…
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London’s opera critics have been roundly condemned for suggesting that a female singer’s personal appearance could make her unsuitable for…
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There is a kind of letter designed to bewilder, upset and possibly terrify its recipient, and this is the standard…
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One curious fact about Sir George Christie, who died last week, aged 79, was that he always cut his own…
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I was predicting in a recent column that the arrival of spring would be bad news for my poultry, and…
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The appointment of Sajid Javid as the new Secretary of State for Culture has been much criticised on the grounds…
