Life
The energy of the world is shifting south
Kenya Greetings from Africa, my beleaguered cousins. I’ve written before about how in 1973, Uganda’s Idi Amin telegrammed Queen Elizabeth,…
How to make the perfect fry-up
Catriona went to England and Scotland for ten days. The last thing she said to the lean and slippered pantaloon…
Aussie life
We are constantly being told that the Uluru Statement is an invitation from the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people…
Language
Is ‘wellness’ really a word? It was coined in America (where else?) in the late 1950s to mean: ‘the state…
Spectator competition winners: Toe-curling analogies
In Competition No. 3274, you were invited to supply toe-curling analogies. Bad writing has attracted some high-brow fans. J.R.R. Tolkien…
My Twelve to Follow over jumps
The dozen recommended in May left us with a decent profit
I have been locked out of my pension
With only five to ten more years to work out how to log in to my pension plan I need…
I dropped a morphine capsule in my Moscow Mule
A dear friend came to stay for two nights. Could I be persuaded, wondered he and Catriona, on the first…
The ultimate American comfort food: how to make meatloaf
Meatloaf has some obstacles to overcome: it has an unprepossessing appearance, and an uninspiring, slightly off-putting name, which it shares…
The Battle for Britain | 12 November 2022
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The allure of ‘delight qualities’
If you were to ask which single business concept deserves to be more widely known, I would be hard-pressed to…
The case against climate change reparations
I was a little disappointed by Boris Johnson’s argument against Britain paying reparations for the damage done to developing countries…
The wartime roots of Italian Pinot Noir
Wine-making can have a tragic dimension, and rarely more so than with Italian Pinot Nero: that is, Pinot Noir. It…
Aussie life
That alcohol-related death rates rose during the pandemic might be the least surprising announcement ever made by the Australian Bureau…
