Diary
Diary
I first met a boyish, sunny Tony Blair more than 20 years ago. Our encounters have always been slightly tense…
Diary
All hail social media. In January, I lost my beautiful pussycat Mr Mew, and I have spent six long months…
Diary
All hail social media. In January, I lost my beautiful pussycat Mr Mew, and I have spent six long months…
Diary
Referendum day is as nondescript and wet as the day before, happily spent in Cambridge at my son’s Leo’s graduation.…
Diary
Referendum day is as nondescript and wet as the day before, happily spent in Cambridge at my son’s Leo’s graduation.…
Diary
It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…
Diary
It was a nice touch that MPs sat in each other’s seats in the Commons during the tributes to Jo…
Diary
Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…
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Flabby, vaguely disorientated and, more than three years on, still struggling with stroke recovery, I am on a radical diet.…
Diary
When an old friend X came to dinner in London, I sampled what it must have been like during the…
China’s students aren’t so scary any more
In 1873, when Jules Verne published his Around the World in Eighty Days, it seemed worth betting that a circumnavigation…
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In 1873, when Jules Verne published his Around the World in Eighty Days, it seemed worth betting that a circumnavigation…
Prue Leith: British hotels still serve filthy food
Why do we assume all doctors are good? We don’t think there are no bad cooks or bad plumbers. But…
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Why do we assume all doctors are good? We don’t think there are no bad cooks or bad plumbers. But…
Joan Collins: The celebrity trend I just can’t stand
Not only are today’s young girls having to work hard on their abs, butts and glutes, now the likes of…
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Not only are today’s young girls having to work hard on their abs, butts and glutes, now the likes of…
Ruth Davidson's diary: Why I hid behind a pillar on election day
On Thursday morning I’m woken by day three of a tension headache firing tentacles up the back of my neck…
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On Thursday morning I’m woken by day three of a tension headache firing tentacles up the back of my neck…
Donald Trump is an awkward ginger snob – and he owes me £20
I am no admirer of Donald Trump — not because he is a doomsayer and professional patriot but because he…
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I am no admirer of Donald Trump — not because he is a doomsayer and professional patriot but because he…
Michael Dobbs’s diary: Talking House of Cards with President Xi
I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
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I’m a lucky man. My novel House of Cards transformed my life, yet I wrote it almost by accident nearly…
The 90th birthday present that the Queen really wants
The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations start this week with the real thing and barely stop until her official birthday in…
Diary
The Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations start this week with the real thing and barely stop until her official birthday in…
Rachel Johnson’s diary: My brother’s whopping tax return
With hindsight maybe it was silly for me to bleat, ‘As everyone knows, the Johnsons are neither posh nor rich’…
