Prince Charles
Long life
I have rather a poor record for speeding over the years. I have been caught by cameras quite often, sometimes…
John Eliot Gardiner
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is talented almost beyond measure. His Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and stupidly named Orchestre Révolutionnaire…
Palace Notebook
The day of my investiture at Buckingham Palace dawned bringing freezing rain and fierce winds, which lashed at the windows…
Diary
I am living in rustic seclusion while writing a book. Our only cultural outing of the week was to Newbury…
The trouble with Kids Company
It’s a favourite charity of David Cameron and many celebrities. But does it do what it claims to do?
Letters
In defence of Oxfam Sir: Mary Wakefield rightly praises Médecins sans Frontières but makes many misinformed claims about Oxfam and…
The Charles problem
The Prince of Wales has shown himself too vain to accept the limits of constitutional monarchy
High life
Thick snow is falling hard and heavy, muffling sounds and turning the picturesque village postcard beautiful. I am lying in…
Floods of incompetence
When Prince Charles arrived in Somerset to meet some of those caught up in the disaster which in five weeks…
Criminal damage
Anyone with a passing interest in old British buildings must get angry at the horrors inflicted on our town centres…
Diary
Hard on the heels of the 90th birthday of Nicholas Parsons (10 October) comes the 65th birthday of the Prince…
