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It was a good visit, I’d say. A successful bit of grandparenting. All made possible by the charm of Matilda and Elliott. What made the diffe...

It’s often said that we get the leaders we deserve. In which case, I wonder what particularly deadly offences we must have committed to dese...

Here’s a question that’s been troubling me for a while. It ’ s about modernity. When does it end, exactly? I mean, in principle we know when...

The heavy burden of high office, which I mentioned a while back was weighing me down, has at last been lifted from my shoulders. Last week ...

One swallow, they say, doesn’t make a summer. A whole bunch do, on the other hand. Especially since they turned up just as our rather grim s...

He’s pulled it off again! Boris Johnson, the great escape artist, has ducked being sacked by his own party’s MPs. Enough called for a vote o...

Orgues d'Ille-sur-Tet, in the Pyrenees Art and nature. They’re opposites, aren’t they?  That ’s a statement that often takes a  more spe...