A friend of mine wrote to me a few days ago, explaining that he was pleased about the results I the last two by-elections, but…
A friend of mine wrote to me a few days ago, explaining that he was pleased about the results I the last two by-elections, but…
I know our attention is supposed to have moved on this week, and that the Labour conference is now in the spotlight. But before we…
Yggdrasil, as any student of Norse mythology will know, is the ‘world tree’ – a huge ash, the branches of which cover the whole world….
I spent most of my Saturday afternoon reading all the messages and comments below the line on Quora’s answer to whether there had been a…
Blimey! Wonders will never cease! The Daily Telegraph – of all places – has set aside their normal knee jerk reaction against anything that smacks…
Ten years ago exactly, in the summer of 2013 – when I was househunting in Sussex and had just published my book about the coming…
I was just talking to a friend about her travails with car insurers Aviva. Apparently, they told her – when she finally got through to…
I remember a conversation which I had some time ago, which may actually just have been with myself, about the alliance that made up the…
I spent yesterday morning at the Sussex Steam Fair. At Parham House, no less, which is an independent stately home and which is normally the…