Life
Why you should ask to see your pet’s medical notes
‘Notice from your vets’ said the email subject. I clicked and there was a letter telling me that my vet…
My Willie Thorne moment
The sunny, growing month of November is the British expat’s Provençal dividend. Every morning the meridional sunshine comes in through…
Aussie life
It has become the standard practice of Australian property developers to decorate the hoardings around inner-city construction sites with photographs…
Language
When I was chatting to Peta Credlin on Sky News the question came up of the word ‘normalcy’. It has…
Another wasteland lost: Battersea Power Station reviewed
The rude fingers of Battersea are repointed, and barely rude at all. The power station by Giles Gilbert Scott and…
Rugby’s new golden age
This column may have been somewhat negative about the future of rugby recently – so how cheering to report a…
Gary Neville’s fairweather morality
Should England be participating in the Qatar World Cup? On the face of it, the case for a boycott is…
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…
