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Last Tuesday I tried to sign up to a new life. My wife and I argued, slightly. ‘I don’t think…
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This week marks another milestone in my 15-year battle with Richard Branson. Ever since he unsuccessfully sued me in 1999…
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Until recently I used to claim that I had been literary editor of The Spectator for over 25 years; now…
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I feel a bit about the Scottish referendum as I did about the 2005 Ashes series. In both cases, those of…
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Lebanon The Beirut press corps gather to remember the murdered journalist Jim Foley. People stand for a minute’s silence, drink…
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No, no, no, you don’t want a house abroad — the paperwork, the taxes, the piping, the cost of the…
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Like many inward-looking children, I always doodled stories and poems. Knowing one wanted to be a writer is a different…
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I made a welcome escape from sweltering Warsaw to the cloudy cool of Bodø, halfway up the coast of Norway,…
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Wellington, Ontario A British visitor to this village might be disoriented by the flags. They look almost exactly like the…
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I knew that the historian Sir Richard Evans was a rather abrasive and quarrelsome man, but I was staggered by…
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Sport is like love: it can only really hurt you if you care. Or for that matter, bring joy. You…
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I have written a play, but a month after it was sent to half a dozen theatres, I have heard…
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Can there be anything more perfect than early July in London, when the sun is shining, the sky a cloudless…
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The former proprietor of this magazine, Conrad Black, is in London at the moment with his gorgeous wife Barbara, and…
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I’m an old conference hand going back to the Tories’ annual get-together of 1958. My headmaster, an Irish Christian Brother…
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Could there be a more timely advert for the Better Together campaign than on the field of sport? What the…
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To Paris, for the launch of the French edition of my novel about the Dreyfus affair. As we land, I…
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I’ve been heading east in a circle around the world from Chicago, taking in New York, London, Edinburgh, Liverpool, Bristol,…
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My trips to meet Russians in Russia these days are a little less controversial than my encounter with them in…
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Having dampened local republican ardour during their recent tour of New Zealand and Australia, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge…
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My wife and I spent the winter in Worcestershire. This allowed me to tell everyone back home in the States:…
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I feel an intense antipathy for Vladimir Putin. No one on the international scene has aroused in me such dislike…
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I am back in the UK for work. Great time to turn up — after the grim, grey grind of…
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Ahh! Spring has sprung at last! Or has it? Leaving a warm and sunlit London last month we expected balmy…
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A week away in Crete: I’ve come for the archaeology and culture — little patches of Minos, ancient Greece, Byzantium and…
