Life
Yoghurt pot cake: the perfect sugary blank canvas
I’m pretty easygoing when it comes to most aspects of cooking. I don’t think there’s much to be gained from…
Just Stop Snake Oil
Last month I went to Lord Frost’s superb lecture for the Global Warming Policy Foundation about the harm net zero…
Wild life
Laikipia The principal of the local polytechnic was waiting for me in the kitchen. Frequently in the kitchen there is…
Real life
The mouse has been eating his way through the medicine cabinet to the extent that I am really quite frightened…
Aussie life
Imagine waking from a 50-year coma to find that the TV in your recovery room was permanently tuned to a…
Language
Recently I came across the expression ‘weaponised words’– the idea that words with a standard, accepted meaning can be changed…
The demonisation of Kathleen Stock
It had been billed as the most controversial debate of the year, with even Rishi Sunak intervening to say that…
English Championship
Michael Adams took first place at the Chessable English Championship in Kenilworth last weekend, winning the tournament with 6/7. In…
Discovering St Julien
Burgundy or Bordeaux? We were discussing that unending question during dinner over the weekend. I think that there is only…
The great car delusion
Suella Braverman was completely wrong to ask her civil servants to investigate the possibility of arranging a one-on-one speed awareness…
The science of horse racing
Everybody in racing is looking for an edge. With 7-4 the field, the punter is looking for a 2-1. The…
The BB wants to put my dream farm on a skip
‘Have you got your passport? Your phone? Your wallet?’ The builder boyfriend patted his pockets and told me not to…
Aussie life
South of Sydney there is a road which winds its way from the glistening emerald waters of the Pacific Ocean,…
Duck confit
Of all the myriad ways of preserving, confit always strikes me as wonderfully improbable. The ability to preserve meat just…
