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A whimsical look at the world through the eyes of Robert Green

This coming Sunday will see the staging of the League Cup Final at Wembley Stadium. These days it’s called the Carabao Cup, its immediate previ...

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FOOTBALL: Wembley Stadium – Arsenal’s (sort of) home from home

As our prime minister, Mr Micawber….oops, sorry, Mrs May, is well-known for thinking, something will turn up. Surely it will? Won’t it? As...

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FINANCE: EUreka!…but the soft or the hard way?

Stieg Larsson’s first book in his Millennium trilogy was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, published in 2005. (A photo of the cover is on the ho...

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FICTION: Life after Larsson…but have we now had a surfeit of Salander?

Gary Oldman has apparently said he smoked 12 cigars a day for three months in order to achieve the right rasping sound of Winston Churchill’s vo...

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FILM: Churchill – a story of awe and war

A few weeks ago I was on a flight to somewhere and, quite unusually for me, I had my headphones on, listening to music, while the plane was being boar...

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FLYING: Going nuts (or not!) in the air

In November, my wife and I returned to Antigua. It looked as good as always (as you get an idea of from the photo on the home page). We did quite a lo...

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FOREIGN: Glorious panoramas but dodgy planning in paradise

In Douglas Adams’ famous novel The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, the number 42 is the ‘Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life,...

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GOLF: Tiger @ 42 – A Thrillology in Fore! Parts

A couple of months ago I visited the annual art fair, Frieze London, held near the centre of town in Regent’s Park. It was a fantasy of sorts, i...

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FANTASY: All the fun of the (art) fair at Frieze

Is cave exploring really fun? Many people do like it, indeed love it, and in some respects I should, but all considered I prefer my underground experi...

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FUN: Flunking the spelunking…except in Mallorca

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