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Britains favourtites. What have I got to say about it? Is it still relevant in a multi channel world where…
Chief emergency officer
On Sunday I was discharged from hospital after a week’s stay. I was there because of a mistake. The…
We don’t burn old boys
Bonfire Night is, for me, the most exciting of nights. Bigger than Christmas Eve or Halloween or Easter or any…
The bird in the Bear – how I miss the Cold War
The photo was taken by a foreign correspondent on patrol with the RAF. (I was at university with his son,…
Englishmen in New York
From an environmental point of view, I wasn’t scoring any Brownie points. The flight across the Atlantic from Miami was…
The Watergate Bay tapes
Three days a week, I did the school run. We climbed in to the car and the trip lasted 45…
Ionian blues
England is green. And Australia, in the main, is sunset dirt orange. But Greece is blue. There is not a…
Your reward is in the Chateau
An old boss of mine at the best advertising agency in the world (according to the Gunn Report, which measures…
Hot metal and cold facts
Goodwood Revival. The words either bring a look of consternation to people’s faces or else they break out in smiles…
