Kirstie Allsopp
The slippery business of catching a snake
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna It is strange how events elide and create a pattern whose significance remains elusive. I had just…
My teenage Interrailing adventures
Dante’s Beach, Ravenna In my life I have nearly killed myself mainly with cigarettes and alcohol and dangerous journeys into…
In defence of Kirstie Allsopp
The jibe, commonly attributed to Napoleon, that England is a nation of shopkeepers, was at least a sort of compliment.…
Diary
Monday morning and I am heading south on Harley Street towards a rendezvous with ramifications, a date that is also…
Portrait of the week
Home The government scrabbled together material for the Queen’s Speech, which promised measures to allow money to be put into…
