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With the boiling, broiling summer here in Provence now at an end, it’s time to start thinking about rehearsing for…
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There are few better locations to resist la rentrée than the wilds of Exmoor. The late August heather and gorse.…
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Another week, another whitewash. The latest chunk of culture to be painted out of existence is ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, Queen’s…
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Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative party, popped a few monocles by saying asylum seekers reluctant to stay on…
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The temperature has hit 40°C in Crete, where I am writing this, and although there have been no fires, nothing…
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To think I once thought cricket dull. For more than 40 days and 40 nights, I have been gripped by…
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In this summer of sporting dramas, every patriotic sports fan likes to think he’s done his bit to help. I…
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When someone asks ‘How are you?’ you have to assume your interlocutor is only being polite. Anyone who returns a…
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Kyiv When Winston Churchill visited bomb sites during the Blitz, the most common sentiment he heard was, ‘We…
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The wonderful Barbara Kingsolver wrote that hope is something you should not admire from a distance, but rather live inside…
