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Long life

On being fired – and hired – as an editor

Losing an editorship isn't the end of the world. But it is glorious to have another one at the age of 73

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

21 June 2014

8:00 AM

Last week was unusual. At the start of it, I was mooching about in the country in my customary way, doing little odd jobs and fretting over the fate of my poultry, which is once again under attack from foxes. I have yet to see a fox in Northamptonshire this year, but the farmer says there is a fox’s lair in an old barn in the park below my house.

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