Am I in denial about turning 50?
I could be dealing with my decay and depression by focussing on my children
Lighting up with King Jack
Playing for England depends on who you are, where you learned your sport — and how you sound
The world according to Bob
Apparently, Ellis believes that the year 2011 was as important as 1848. He never explains why, exactly. He seems to…
Notes from the old dart
The headline in The Mail on Sunday conveys a sense of stepping back in time on arrival at Gatwick: ‘Ed…
Brown study
Last Monday I watched Bill Shorten’s press conference with the Canberra press gallery, covered lovingly in every excruciating detail by…
End the Age of Entitlement
Stop the reckless and feckless profiting at the expense of the more prudent who subsidise their follies
Australian notes
The cheers of 180 celebrants (at $290 a head) echoed across the moonlit harbour from Pinchgut Island to the Opera…
Diary
As it ticked over midnight and into my wife’s birthday, I crossed to Paul Murray Live on Sky News from…
Do you feel lucky, Bill?
I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking, ‘Will he really go to a double dissolution?’ Now to tell you the…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
Grace under pressure
Ask any England cricket fan in his fifties to name his favourite batsman and chances are he will say David…
Movement
Ten minutes — or less — before we step down at one of the ‘London Terminals’, ploughed land restarts and…
Skymap Says We’re Nowhere Near Home
In Economy’s cramped haul it’s all I ever watch. Our course is laid on screen before me, a dotted line…
Skymap Says We’re Nowhere Near Home
In Economy’s cramped haul it’s all I ever watch. Our course is laid on screen before me, a dotted line…
Towards the end of Gordon
The Union Street Café is in a dismal, dingy part of London; dismal dingy Southwark. Southwark, in fact, is almost…
Lighting up with King Jack
The more you see of Jack Wilshere, the more admirable he becomes. He seems to have taken wholeheartedly to fatherhood,…
Wild life
Wizards inland from the little Somali port of Barawe bewitched a person to come to them by banging a nail…
The stuff of dreams
The exhibition The Renaissance and Dream at the Musée du Luxembourg in Paris (until 26 January 2014) explores how artists…
Grace under pressure
Ask any England cricket fan in his fifties to name his favourite batsman and chances are he will say David…
