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It’s so passé to build up stocks of goods long before you need them. These days, ‘Just In Time’ – the Toyota way – is very much the holy Gr...

The young woman was pleasant and polite. At the counter in Costa’s, she stood back to let me through, laughing off my apology. ‘No, no,’ sh...

Since a friend told me that British politics is double-Dutch to people sensible enough to belong to other countries, I should start by expl...

What a great gift my latest sports socks are. They come marked ‘L’ and ‘R’. Isn’t that wonderful? It’s not altogether clear to me how left ...

It is a truth not so much universally acknowledged as monotonously repeated, that they order things better in the private sector. It was a ...

Happy Anniversary to the BBC! Its first broadcast was 90 years ago today. Ninety years today. As lively as ever but short of self-confi...

Whatever its faults, and they are legion, the British Conservative Party does have the knack of producing female politicians who are striki...