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How sad, I used to feel, that old people woke up so early. What a shame, I used to tell myself, that they couldn’t sleep in as I did, till 9...

Having failed to inform myself on what to expect, the first time I visited Stormont, the home of Northern Ireland’s parliament, I was shocke...

Christmas is about kids. That’s a commonplace. In our case, that means grandkids.  In our home, Christmas was for Matilda and Elliott Not th...

Nearly three decades ago, Danielle and I saw a remarkable production of Shakespeare’s Richard II . Slightly over three decades before that I...

There isn’t so much good news around at the moment to want to pass by a piece that comes my way. And this one particularly attracted my atte...

It must have been sixty years ago that I started to learn French. That was at a weirdly English school, even though it was in Rome. Its Engl...

It can be such a bore, studying history. And what’s the point anyway? As Henry Ford so rightly pointed out, the only lesson to learn from hi...