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Why I still love the Edinburgh Fringe
When I was in my twenties, exactly 50 Edinburgh Festivals ago, Frank Dunlop directed the first professional production of Joseph…
Is crypto back?
Might cryptocurrencies stage a return?
My holiday from the news
My holiday from the news
The hidden harms in the Online Safety Bill
The hidden harms in the Online Safety Bill
Is Giorgia Meloni the most dangerous woman in Europe?
Giorgia Meloni is favourite to be Italy’s next prime minister. What does she really believe?
The petty cruelty of the GMC
The General Medical Council has lost the trust of doctors
The brutal truth about holiday packing
The general flying advice this year, with airports resembling cattle markets and when you can’t be sure if you’re ever…
Who needs a hosepipe? The watering cans worth investing in
In the hot, dry summer of 1976, I was working as a gardening student at Arboretum Kalmthout in Belgium. The…
Should you grass on a neighbour who breaks the hosepipe ban?
A neighbourly feud is worse than a hosepipe ban
What I’ve learnt from editing a newspaper letters page
The joys of editing a newspaper letters page
Water woes: who’s to blame for the shortages?
Who’s to blame for the shortages?
The high life of stonemason James Preston
The high life of a stonemason
Liberté, égalité, nudité: France’s new sexual politics
France’s new sexual politics
State-building is a Tory tradition. It’s time to rediscover it
It’s time for some old-fashioned Tory state-building
What happened when I took my son to Drag Queen Story Hour
Why are protestors so angry about a children’s story hour?
Going bananas: Biden's America is fast regressing
America is fast regressing
Baby bust: China’s looming demographic disaster
The demographic crisis might stall its rise
How to be PM: ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
Ten rules for the next Tory leader to live by
How to blend your own beard oil
Every few months I take out a box of essential oils and carefully lay them out on my kitchen table,…
Why must my mobile provider harass me all through my holiday?
Why must my mobile provider harass me all through my holiday?
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
What foreign policy would look like under a PM Truss
Sanctions are working – whatever Putin says
Sanctions are working — whatever Russia says
What we can all learn from Jim Corbett’s tiger tales
What we can learn from Jim Corbett’s big-cat tales
How Rishi Sunak won over the Tories of West Suffolk
How Sunak wowed the Tories of West Suffolk
The parallel universe you can explore on two wheels
Many of us daydream about escaping into an imaginary parallel universe. The good news is that Britain has its own…
