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On a visit to Cambridge, I had a flier pressed into my hand by a campaigner for a Christian evangelical organisation.  It announced a seri...

It was good to see my brother at the weekend, over from Paris with my sister-out-law, Danielle. It feels like a good omen that she has th...

What a disappointment it would be to meet one of the great figures of our time and find they didn’t live up to their reputation. Imagine ...

The attraction of fantasy depends on our accepting at least one complete fallacy after which we can accept that the rest of the story’s pla...

There’s something wonderful about being in a swimming pool at 7:00 in the morning. At least, I’m assured there is. I haven’t actually foun...

It was Napoleon who said that England was a nation of shopkeepers. He wasn’t being complimentary. It seems unfair to hardworking shopkeeper...

It seemed so empty, so mind-blowingly banal, the older person’s dogged determination to follow a dull routine through to completion, each an...