Camilla Swift

The Magnolia Cup: Will the race be to the Swift?

Goodwood

29 July 2017 9:00 am

The South Downs cover 260 sq miles from Hampshire’s Itchen Valley to Eastbourne in East Sussex. Nestled near the southernmost…

The prettiest tourist trail, with added chocolate

Swiss trains

20 May 2017 9:00 am

When Theresa May went off to Switzerland on a walking holiday last August, she said it was the ‘peace and…

Flock horror

4 March 2017 9:00 am

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Flock horror

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

Flock horror

2 March 2017 3:00 pm

Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…

National Hunt racing

19 November 2016 9:00 am

‘A more thrilling, uplifting, glorious way of living has yet to be invented,’ the jockey John Francome said of National…

Ruby Walsh riding Al Ferof at Cheltenham

National Hunt racing

17 November 2016 3:00 pm

‘A more thrilling, uplifting, glorious way of living has yet to be invented,’ the jockey John Francome said of National…

Breach of Trust

15 October 2016 9:00 am

Ever since it was founded in 1895, the National Trust has been considered a good thing. That oak tree sticker…

My latest galloping obsession

22 September 2016 1:00 pm

It’s safe to say that until last year I’d never imagined that I might ride in a race. A real…

Editor’s Letter

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

In August the papers were full of smiling pupils clutching their exam results. Now we’re in September, when children and…

Field studies

8 September 2016 1:00 pm

Think back to any time you spent outside at school, and you’re most likely to recall a muddy sports field.…

Investing in the future

7 July 2016 4:00 am

We might not have our own Silicon Valley (although we do have ‘Silicon Fen’ in Cambridgeshire and the ‘Silicon Roundabout’…

Tales of Mr Tod

11 June 2016 8:00 am

Have you ever considered tying a fox’s penis to your head? Well no, nor have I, but if you suffer…

Rebuilding phase: shipping-container shopping in Christchurch

New Zealand

10 March 2016 3:00 pm

On my first night in Christchurch, I woke at 3.32 a.m. to what felt like an explosion. My bed was…

What happens when they’ve climbed the ladder?

The lessons of exam results season

27 August 2015 1:00 pm

Every year without fail, as the trees start thinking about losing their leaves, the papers are full of the same…

First he brought limp salad, and now it’s drizzling

Picnics

2 July 2015 1:00 pm

Strange, isn’t it, that despite having such famously terrible weather, we Brits are so fond of a picnic. It’s something…

Points of view

3 July 2014 1:00 pm

Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…

Points of view

3 July 2014 1:00 pm

Bridges aren’t necessarily something you think of as being beautiful, particularly if you consider them primarily as the means to…

Pony tales

22 May 2014 1:00 pm

‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…

Pony tales

22 May 2014 1:00 pm

‘The natural aids to horsemanship are the hands, the legs, the body and the voice.’ But a Thelwell pony sometimes…

Vive la différence!

24 April 2014 1:00 pm

‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…

Vive la différence!

24 April 2014 1:00 pm

‘London,’ says Jean Paul Gaultier, ‘was my vitamin. I love the freedom of London…The energy, the character, all the people…

Blast from the past

6 March 2014 3:00 pm

If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…

Blast from the past

6 March 2014 3:00 pm

If Margaret Thatcher is remembered by many more as a caricature than as her actual self, then blame Spitting Image.…

What a life

28 November 2013 3:00 pm

If you were in a bathtub for 25 years, don’t you think you’d get a little bit psychotic? Well, yes,…