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Many Brexiters believe that the world is watching Britain, expecting it once more to roar so the whole world not only hears it, but heeds it...

The United States didn’t invent the railways. That was Britain. It’s like football, where Brits invent something and then watch foreigners d...

One of the pleasures of my job is that it gets me to the US from time to time. Specifically, to Boston and Massachusetts generally, which is...

When I last wrote about my mother, Leatrice, I mentioned the strange circumstance that my parents’ wedding took place in Genoa. Nothing s...

When I first went to university, it was to study Maths and Physics. It didn’t work out. I spent a rather purgatorial time immersed in the po...

There’s always one thing that goes wrong, isn’t there? Still, as long as it all works out in the end, it’s hardly worth complaining. And I c...

Ah, poor Toffee. And poor Danielle, for that matter. Poor me too, perhaps, though I had less to put up with – just a brief interruption of s...