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Now that the railway workers and the junior doctors have settled their differences with the Government, it is left to a group of liberal-minded...
I live in a small village in Oxfordshire, at the foot of a valley through which the River Glyme – whose soft waters were once fundamental to the...
It is probably in keeping with the spirit of the age that Michael Westwood, our latter-day Wat Tyler, is a publican, whose mission is to sell the...
“There was no one quite like him in British politics.” Tony Blair said it first, and with the most authority. Alastair Campbell echoed the former...
Let’s take a mirror to a story that has been running in some newspapers for the past week, something that, for The Daily Telegraph at least,...
About 18 months ago, I was walking through central London with Gary Lineker, on our way to a dinner at which he was speaking. It was around the time...
James McClean, at 35 years old, is coming towards the end of a 13-year professional football career in England that has taken in stints at Sunderland,...
On Tuesday evening, I texted a friend in America to say how fearful I was that Donald Trump would win the presidential election. He texted back,...
I’m not a farmer, or a landowner, and nor do I run a family business, so I don’t have a particular reason to find last week’s Budget personally...
Garry Shandling’s brand of comedy was not to everyone’s taste. His confessional, neurotic schtick, and his fretful tone, was representative of a...
I shall never forget Nuno, the Portuguese nurse who got me up and about when I’d been in bed for three days after a major operation, and caught...
I was there at Tracey Emin’s 40th birthday party. It was held in a beach restaurant near her home in the South of France, and, man, how we drank and...
Which job, with a reported salary of around £100,000 a week, which gives you first-class travel to all corners of the globe, and which offers you the...
Earlier this week, the Adam Smith Instititue – a right-wing think-tank with the motto: “Using free markets to create a richer, freer, happier...
Today is Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, which is a time for hope and renewal, of customs and prayers which invoke the prospect of a benign year...
I am not, in general, a Tripadvisor kind of person, preferring to have my opinions untainted by the experiences of others. But, when it comes to going...
It is one of Michael Gove’s predecessors as editor of The Spectator , Iain Macleod, himself also a one-time Conservative cabinet minister, who is...
On the way to Euston station yesterday, I texted my daughter to ask if she could get me a Sunday newspaper to read on the train up to Manchester. A...
The Corrupt and Illegal Practices Act of 1883 is a very fine example of law making. Designed to make parliamentary elections fairer, more transparent...
I started taking Ozempic five weeks ago. I was fearful of the side effects, of which more later. But at my age, it becomes increasingly harder to...
Everything I know about morality and the friendship of men, I owe to golf. With apologies to Albert Camus – the novelist and part-time goalkeeper...
For reasons of leisure and business, I did quite a lot of flying over the summer. I also did quite a lot of not flying. Within a little less than four...
Many years ago, I knew a border collie. A beautiful, sprightly dog, he would sit and watch television with the family. He would watch anything, from...
I gave up smoking 13 years ago. It was simple, really. No need for hypnotherapy, nicotine tablets or patches. I just got cancer, and suddenly my...
On the home page of Harrow Council’s website, there is a section which informs residents of important developments in the North London borough....
In one sense, Sven-Göran Eriksson has led a charmed life. He has operated at the very highest level in his chosen career, he has enjoyed great...
We were really looking forward to our summer holiday on an island in the Med. For the more mature, middle-class market, sun, sea and sex have been...
The day I received my A-level results, back near the dawn of time, I was working on Stockport market. I took a break from helping my colleagues sell...
Elon Musk will doubtless survey his global domain this morning and feel the rosy glow of self-satisfaction and vindication. Musk’s acquisition of...
What is your most memorable moment so far of the 33rd Olympiad in Paris? For all the astonishing athletic achievement on show, and the acts of...
“What I do know is that something is going terribly wrong in our once beautiful country.” Nigel Farage doesn’t go as far as identifying exactly...
Back in the 1920s, a series of experiments to establish how changes in workplace conditions affected productivity took place at the factory of Western...
Cast your mind back to another time, when the world was a very different place. Specifically, Sunday teatime 12 days ago. It was less than a week...
America was still fighting for its independence from Britain the last time that the county of Oxfordshire had not a single Conservative MP in...
Politeness, we can all agree, is a virtue. And in any pastiche of British manners, it’s trotted out as a classic stereotype. More tea, vicar? After...
My brother-in-law, a charming and steadfast 82-year-old man, has had a rough time of it recently. He was in a car accident while on holiday in South...
The death last weekend of Sir Howard Bernstein – “one of the towering public servants of the last 50 years”, in the words of George Osborne –...
Early on in my journalistic career, when I was covering sport for a weekly newspaper in South Wales, I went to the annual general meeting of the...
In the Labour Party’s official feed on X, in between the messages of good luck to the England football team and the promises that working people...
I do not want to make light of the fact that, somewhere in the Surrey countryside, a young cow is nursing a leg injury sustained when she was rammed...
You may find yourself with 25 minutes or so to spare in your busy schedule today. So what do you do with that time? Some idle social media surfing?...
It’s not like Boris Johnson hasn’t got previous. The former prime minister of the United Kingdom has something of a penchant for peppering his...
Poor old Stephen Fry. One of the cleverest, most erudite, and most articulate men on the planet, he has said something so witless, ill-judged and...
The news that London, self-proclaimed capital city of the world, is no longer to have its own daily newspaper – when once it had three – might...
It’s all right for Eamonn Holmes and Ruth Langsford. They’re on the telly, so a degree of interest in their private lives is only to be expected....
As the final tributes to Irish rugby international and businessman Tony O’Reilly were paid at his funeral in Dublin yesterday, it was hard to make...
Congratulations to Fulham, who, barring an upset on the Premier League’s last day on Sunday, will finish on top of the table. And commiserations...