Life
The turf
The government may for the moment have disbanded its circular firing squad, but racing has never shown a greater ability…
Real life
‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…
Low life
The sunny, growing month of November is the British expat’s Provençal dividend. Every morning the meridional sunshine comes in through…
Aussie life
It has become the standard practice of Australian property developers to decorate the hoardings around inner-city construction sites with photographs…
Language
When I was chatting to Peta Credlin on Sky News the question came up of the word ‘normalcy’. It has…
Power vacuum
The rude fingers of Battersea are repointed, and barely rude at all. The power station by Giles Gilbert Scott and…
Try, try and try again
This column may have been somewhat negative about the future of rugby recently – so how cheering to report a…
Giving hypocrisy 110 per cent
Should England be participating in the Qatar World Cup? On the face of it, the case for a boycott is…
Wild life
Kenya Greetings from Africa, my beleaguered cousins. I’ve written before about how in 1973, Uganda’s Idi Amin telegrammed Queen Elizabeth,…
Low life
Catriona went to England and Scotland for ten days. The last thing she said to the lean and slippered pantaloon…
Aussie life
We are constantly being told that the Uluru Statement is an invitation from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…
Language
Is ‘wellness’ really a word? It was coined in America (where else?) in the late 1950s to mean: ‘the state…
