Diary
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I don’t know why party conferences no longer take place in Scarborough. As a child, I saw many an important…
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Next month, the Today programme marks its 60th anniversary, so I have been mugging up on the archives. If there…
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I never expected to visit Iceland, let alone play cricket there. But the Iceland national team was off to play…
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I never expected to visit Iceland, let alone play cricket there. But the Iceland national team was off to play…
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September is my time of year. Summer is all very well if you’re one of those golden-haired, long-limbed types who…
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Boris Johnson is inspecting the guard of honour and we are doing our best not to giggle. The Foreign Secretary…
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It has been a summer of tears, both of joy and sorrow. The latter first: how could stones not weep…
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To the Business School at the University of Edinburgh to be interviewed on the theme of ‘Great Political Disasters’. Main…
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No sympathy from me for the Brits stuck in the European heatwave. I’ve never understood people who go abroad for…
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Diana Spencer has been dead for 20 years. I was a journalist on the Evening Standard in those days and…
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As pictures go, it could be career death. An amazing young talent caught in a compromising position with two older…
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Monday morning and I am heading south on Harley Street towards a rendezvous with ramifications, a date that is also…
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It has been an unqualified delight, even if it is mildly absurd: I have been chairing the judges for this…
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A trip to the supermarché at the beginning of our French month yielded many of the necessary things one also…
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Also in Sam Leith’s Diary: the best 18th-century novel since the 18th century and gossiping with David Miller
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To Fortnum & Mason last week on the hottest evening of the year to present the Desmond Elliott Prize for…
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Five years after I swore I’d finished with him, it’s odd to be back on the road with Alex Rider.…
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Nobody inside CCHQ was prepared for election night’s 10 p.m. exit poll. Lynton Crosby’s last text to me predicted that…
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Hundreds of terrorists and suspected terrorists have gone through the British educational system. Yet amid all the pre-election talk about…
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Hundreds of terrorists and suspected terrorists have gone through the British educational system. Yet amid all the pre-election talk about…
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In such gorgeous weather the best part of Scotland to visit is not (as so many seem to think) the…
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The chances of my 20-year-old student son being at an Ariana Grande concert on a Monday night were, my head…
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On the heels of the Today programme’s invitation to discuss ‘cultural appropriation’ (again), the New York Times reported the disheartening…
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Watching the general election from my newsroom is an out-of-body experience. I’ve been involved in the last five general elections…
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The Prosperity UK conference over a week ago kicked off with a dinner at Hatfield House that brought together Leavers…
