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Reality seems thinner these days. As I walk along the high street, passers-by drift apart as though afraid of crossing…
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A lockdown diary is an oddly negative thing. At the dinner parties that we aren’t going to, we aren’t discussing…
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One victim of police brutality is police decency. Our son has a tutor, J., who works with autistic kids in…
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I can’t remember the day I realised Santa Claus wasn’t real but I will never forget the moment I lost…
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The choir of Notre Dame made a recording of Howard Goodall’s beautiful version of Psalm 23. Unlike cathedral choirs here…
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Entering my 54th day of quarantine, I recall how much I was looking forward to this spring in England. There…
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Never have I stared at my own face so much. Not because I want to, it’s just always there now,…
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When the post office and stores closed in our village on Exmoor, my youngest stared out of the car window…
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The vocabulary of Brexit has passed into oblivion. Now there’s fresh work to be done. We all know about ‘flattening…
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When two members of my family went down with what appears to be Covid-19, I felt concerned. What I hadn’t…
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Week five… which is to say I’ve been self-isolating in the country since 6 March. Meanwhile, engagements which threatened a…
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‘How are you bearing up?’ ‘Is everyone terrified?’ ‘What’s the mood?’ These are the questions concerned family and friends are…
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Writers like me are used to long hours alone. I’ve never enjoyed that side of it. I don’t like the…
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As every Chancellor knows, behind every figure in the Treasury lie thousands of human stories. At times like these, saving…
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I have been trying to write about a great unpleasantness for some time: the trans debate that we don’t really…
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‘Aren’t you meant to be in quarantine?’ the man in the cloakroom queue asks. I sense that his enquiry is…
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I made the mistake of saying I thought insects might help feed the world. They are high-protein, cheap to farm…
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A doctor will tell you heart attacks may appear to come out of the blue, but if you look carefully,…
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Exactly 50 years ago I drove, for the first visit of many, across country to Aldeburgh in Suffolk, following the…
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After I took the editor’s job at Today on Radio 4 nearly three years ago I had to answer to…
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I still live in the same house, in London, in which I lived as a baby. I walk my five-year-old…
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I start the week by going through my iPhone to delete the numbers of former friends. It sounds depressing, but…
I was joking about Meghan and Harry becoming king and queen of Canada
Washington, D.C. On 8 January, I tweeted about the Sussex-Markles: ‘Obviously the plan is to return to Canada, lead a…
Fraser Nelson: What categories should we include in our Parliamentarian of the Year awards?
The night before our last issue went to press, I received a message from the Prime Minister saying that he…
Boris Johnson: Perhaps my campaign was ‘clunking’. But sometimes, clunking is what you need
You may wonder why I am up at 4.45 a.m. writing this diary when I have a country to run, Queen’s…
