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…
The Editor
Food is just food
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An early morning walk around the Vietnam War
We’ve just had the biggest psychological and military defeat in the west since the storming of the US embassy in…
Hungry and thirsty and watchery
All E’s sayings The Tomorrow Club.