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Teddy Jamieson: There's one memory I’ll take with me into 2024

SO, what have you been up to in 2023? I’ve just been totting this year up. In the last 12 months I’ve read 76 books (I’ve another couple on the...

28.12.2023 10

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Teddy Jamieson: Cop28 won't change a thing

ANOTHER year, another climate conference. COP28 concluded this week with an agreement in place to “transition away” from fossil fuels. Good news?...

14.12.2023 3

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Teddy Jamieson: Sorry, but does Napoleon really matter?

There have been around a thousand movies and TV dramas made about Napoleon over the years. That’s more than even Hitler or Jesus, it seems. The...

30.11.2023 3

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Teddy Jamieson: Britain, in all its bleak hard-heartedness, never really changes

“THE past is a foreign country,” the novelist LP Hartley famously suggested. “They do things differently there.” Well, maybe Leslie, but...

16.11.2023 7

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Teddy Jamieson: What's so bad about being ordinary?

IT is disconcerting when you watch an advert that feels as if it is aimed directly at you. It is even more unsettling when it’s an ad for Marks &...

02.11.2023 3

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'I adore Englishness but I am suspicious of its love of tradition and the past'

SOME years ago I found myself in Hampstead in London. It was Tom Conti’s fault. I was there to interview him for The Herald Magazine. I was early...

19.10.2023 5

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Teddy Jamieson: Every so often, grief will remind you it hasn't finished with you

Four years ago today I became a widower. At just after eight in the morning on October 5, 2019, in Strathcarron Hospice near Denny my wife Jeanie...

05.10.2023 2

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Teddy Jamieson: Sunak's anti-green move is a desperate act from a desperate man

IT’S an act of desperation, isn’t it? The news that the Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is going to water down net zero policies, which caused such a...

20.09.2023 5

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Teddy Jamieson: Another year of the Tories. What a miserable prospect

SO, have you seen Theresa May’s official portrait yet? It’s actually quite an impressive piece of work by the artist Saied Dai. It makes the...

07.09.2023 10

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