Author: David Boyle

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…

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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…

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Yggdrasil, as any student of Norse mythology will know, is the ‘world tree’ – a huge ash, the branches of which cover the whole world….

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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…

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What is wrong with the NHS hospital doctors and consultants? They must surely understand by now that their unprecedented joint strike action later this month…

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The day the First World War broke out, 4 August 1914, the future poet Edward Thomas was waiting for his wife and children to arrive on…

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Blimey! Wonders will never cease! The Daily Telegraph – of all places – has set aside their normal knee jerk reaction against anything that smacks…

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Ten years ago exactly, in the summer of 2013 – when I was househunting in Sussex and had just published my book about the coming…

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I was just talking to a friend about her travails with car insurers Aviva. Apparently, they told her – when she finally got through to…

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I have in the last few days read so much comment and had so many discussions with people about the three by-election results (as preparation…

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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…

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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…

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