Life
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…
Beyond the cringe
In Competition No. 3274, you were invited to supply toe-curling analogies. Bad writing has attracted some high-brow fans. J.R.R. Tolkien…
The turf
The dozen recommended in May left us with a decent profit
Real life
With only five to ten more years to work out how to log in to my pension plan I need…
Low life
A dear friend came to stay for two nights. Could I be persuaded, wondered he and Catriona, on the first…
Meatloaf
Meatloaf has some obstacles to overcome: it has an unprepossessing appearance, and an uninspiring, slightly off-putting name, which it shares…
The Battle for Britain
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Delights to behold
If you were to ask which single business concept deserves to be more widely known, I would be hard-pressed to…
What Boris should have said at Cop27
I was a little disappointed by Boris Johnson’s argument against Britain paying reparations for the damage done to developing countries…
The spoils of war
Wine-making can have a tragic dimension, and rarely more so than with Italian Pinot Nero: that is, Pinot Noir. It…
