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A month ago I was reporting complacently that peace and calm had returned to Stoke Park after a series of…
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When I was a child, growing up in Hertfordshire just after the second world war, my parents employed a cook…
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Given that more than 9,000 innocent Italian civilians, many of them women and children, died in Nazi massacres during the…
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The Italians are often thought of as being unpatriotic, and one can see why. They relentlessly denigrate their national institutions,…
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There is at last good news to report on the poultry front. In the past, when I have mentioned my…
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My brother John’s great book sale, about which I wrote on this page a couple of weeks ago, finally took…
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My village, Stoke Bruerne in south Northamptonshire, is just getting back to normal after a great influx of visitors for…
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It is exactly 40 years since my elder brother John gave up a successful career as a publisher to set…
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I am embarrassed not by people using ‘non-U’ expressions but by people who still care about such things
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I have been puzzling about why the United States authorities ever thought that Bradley Manning, who was jailed last week…
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After a carefree month at my wife’s house in Tuscany — the longest summer holiday I have spent there for…
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The Italian shop assistant accused by Oprah Winfrey of showing racial prejudice towards her in a shop in Zurich has…
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While sitting beside a pool under a blistering Tuscan sun, I’ve been reading an article in Corriere della Sera about…
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When we bought the farmhouse in Tuscany, where I am now, more than 40 years ago, there were only two…
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The people of Rome have always liked to believe the worst of their bishop. When I was a correspondent in…
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The government has done a puzzling U-turn over its plan to introduce plain packaging for cigarettes. It had seemed determined…
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The days may be long gone when a husband would pretend to commit adultery in a Brighton hotel so as…
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I seem to have been steeped in opera lately. First there was Ariadne auf Naxos at Glyndebourne, then Peter Grimes…
