Long life
Long life
My friend Alan Rusbridger has just given up editing the Guardian after a distinguished 20-year reign that has climaxed, as…
Long life
My friend Alan Rusbridger has just given up editing the Guardian after a distinguished 20-year reign that has climaxed, as…
Dressing up for the opera is not elitist
It’s June, and the country-house summer opera festivals are now in full swing. Glyndebourne, which opened the season last month,…
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It’s June, and the country-house summer opera festivals are now in full swing. Glyndebourne, which opened the season last month,…
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It’s June, and the country-house summer opera festivals are now in full swing. Glyndebourne, which opened the season last month,…
Living next door to someone rich, and beside a motorway, makes you fat and your blood pressure soar
I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
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I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
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I wrote last week about a swarm of bees that had attached itself to a wall of my house, as…
Inside, pursued by a swarm of bees
From reading the newspapers you might get the impression that honeybees were on the way to extinction. In Europe, it…
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From reading the newspapers you might get the impression that honeybees were on the way to extinction. In Europe, it…
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From reading the newspapers you might get the impression that honeybees were on the way to extinction. In Europe, it…
A Finnish man was fined £83,000 for speeding because his annual income is £10.1 million
I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
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I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
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I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
What Italy made of the result of the British general election (not much)
On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be…
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On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be…
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On election day I was in Puglia in the ‘heel’ of Italy, where interest in British politics could hardly be…
The over-75s are being asked if they would like to sign their own death warrants
It’s more than four months now since my 75th birthday, but I’m still waiting for a ‘cold call’ from the…
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It’s more than four months now since my 75th birthday, but I’m still waiting for a ‘cold call’ from the…
Long life
It’s more than four months now since my 75th birthday, but I’m still waiting for a ‘cold call’ from the…
The fraught business of seat surrender
I remember the first time that someone stood up and offered me a seat on the London Underground. It was…
The birth of a royal baby is hardly an exciting event
There are already people camping outside St Mary’s Hospital, Paddington, to await the birth shortly of another royal baby, the…
The tortoises are alive! (And sitting on the duck’s eggs)
No sooner had I written last week’s column about the sad disappearance of the two tortoises in my care than…
Have I inadvertently killed my friend’s tortoises?
It’s April. It’s spring. The daffodils and the cowslips are in flower. The birds are chirping merrily. But where are…
The fox that killed my chickens depressed me more than 250,000 tsunami deaths
It is hard to know how a tragedy is going to move a person who is not directly affected by…
