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Anne Boleyn’s last secret
Why was the queen executed with a sword, rather than an axe?
Notes on….Walking in the Scottish Highlands
The simplest and best way to get straight to the heart of the Highlands from London is by sleeper. Board…
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
Love-making in Water
Seals — well, they rhyme with steel — can stand the cold. And they can even dive and mate at…
Learn to switch off
Why not give your smartphone a holiday?
A miniature civil war
Events in one Syrian town cast light on the nation’s strife
Bloody Vikings
Forget that guff about peaceful farmers with an interest in travel
Welcome to Big Venice
London is at risk of becoming a tourist trap full of second homes
Nature vs nudists
How a little bird saved my favourite beach
Who’s Who?
Through the ages, the Time Lord has been a political weathervane
Boris vs Theresa
The Mayor of London and the Home Secretary are squaring up for the next Tory leadership battle
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
The meat makers
Sooner than you think, all our burgers may be grown in a lab
How to run a revolution
Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood should have learnt from Nasser
Bats vs people
They are a protected species – we’re not
The secret fertility service
The strange tale of how 500 women were helped to conceive after the first world war
Be more tortoise
Five lessons from my new pet
The last male space
Why I love my barber’s
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Siempre
I am not jealous. If you arrived with a man on your back, or a hundred men hanging in the…
Help the Aged
The elderly are being scapegoated for the economic misfortunes of the young – when in fact they are driving the recovery
Walking
One moment basking in the sun, the next knee-deep in snow astonished at the way these tracks must have filled…
The contented little prince
On raising a royal baby
Must I sponsor your misery?
Every charitable donation now seems to come with a promise to suffer
Osborne’s indecent proposal
The Chancellor is offering leftish council tenants like me a larger bribe than ever to abandon our principles
