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No sacred cows / My father’s greatest act of kindness

I’ve been busy planning a trip to New Zealand and Australia. I’ll be gone for about five weeks from mid-June, which is by some distance the...

11.04.2024 3

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No Sacred Cows / Could J.K. Rowling be Oxford’s next chancellor?

Among my generation of Oxford graduates – late fifties, early sixties – there is currently a great deal of talk about who the next chancellor...

04.04.2024 3

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No sacred cows / I’ve found the cure for climate anxiety

A new documentary, Climate: The Movie, by the maverick filmmaker Martin Durkin, is becoming a phenomenon, though it’s received almost no publicity...

01.04.2024 20

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No sacred cows / Is Gove handing Labour a dangerous weapon?

Michael Gove is back in the news, having come up with a new definition of extremism that he wants to roll out across Whitehall and beyond. Those...

14.03.2024 3

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No sacred cows / Joe Biden’s dog is out of control

Toby Young has narrated this article for you to listen to. I was shocked to read about the behaviour of Joe Biden’s dog, Commander. According to a...

29.02.2024 3

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No sacred cows / Acton is now posher than Chiswick

In 2017, David Lloyd Clubs took out a long lease on the privately owned sports facility at the end of my road. It used to be called the Park Club, but...

15.02.2024 40

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University / I nearly died on my gap year

By the time you read this, my son Ludo will be in South America, where he’s gone for what remains of his gap year. He deferred his university place...

01.02.2024 6

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No sacred cows / Could a 100-bottle limit help me cut down on drinking?

My New Year’s resolution is to cut down on my drinking. I’m not talking about bringing it within the NHS’s recommended limit, obviously. I’ve...

04.01.2024 4

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No sacred cows / The feminist case for banning women from the Garrick 

I’ve always had a soft spot for the Garrick. Named after an 18th-century theatrical impresario, it was established in 1831 as a club where ‘actors...

10.12.2023 7

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No Sacred Cows / I’m living in my very own hell’s kitchen

According to a friend who sold a successful consulting business a few years ago, the problem with employing middle-class Britons, unlike Americans, is...

25.11.2023 10

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Israel / My futile morning guarding Churchill’s statue

On Armistice Day I made my way to Parliament Square with some vague notion of protecting Churchill’s statue. I’d discussed the need to stop it...

16.11.2023 6

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No sacred cows / Why I’m optimistic about multiculturalism

Many of my conservative friends are beginning to catastrophise about the future of Britain in light of the pro-Palestinian protests that have erupted...

09.11.2023 2

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No sacred cows / Why I don’t trust the BBC’s Trusted News Initiative

You almost certainly haven’t heard of the Trusted News Initiative (TNI), although you probably should have. It’s a BBC-led consortium of the...

26.10.2023 3

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No sacred cows / I’ve turned 60 – but all is not lost

By the time you read this I’ll be 60, having passed that milestone on Tuesday. My older friends tell me that turning 60 is like having to give a...

23.10.2023 10

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No sacred cows / The joy of deer stalking

In spite of my dodgy right hand – caused by an injury to my radial nerve – I decided to go stalking in the Highlands last weekend. Recovery from...

12.10.2023 2

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No sacred cows / An injured hand has given me a glimpse of old age

I first realised something was wrong with my hand last Thursday evening. I’d been invited by a friend to go shooting at his grouse moor in Yorkshire...

06.10.2023 3

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No sacred cows / The myth of male privilege

A few weeks ago I had a crack at coming up with my own sociological ‘law’ and my first effort went as follows: ‘The more progressive a country...

14.09.2023 6

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