My wife and I recently spent an exceedingly pleasant few days at a guest house in Cornwall. We had been to England’s most westerly county before on ...
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This is a novel that unabashedly mixes fact and fiction. Red Star Down by D.B. John, who was brought up in Wales and is a rare Westerner who has been ...
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Shoreditch has been regarded as an up-and-coming area of London for so long now that we should probably simply acknowledge the fact that it has well a...
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A blog about a rock band as a fantasy? Well, not really but, yes, somewhat at least. I am sure I was not the only guy in his 20s in the late 1970s who...
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Trying to get around England’s capital city without recourse to the London Underground, more commonly known as the tube, is an almost unplayable...
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In an interview with Ewan Murray for The Guardian on the eve of last month’s Open Championship, Shane Lowry spoke about his famously boisterous and ...
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The England women’s footballers, the Lionesses, won the Euro 2025 competition in Basel on Sunday evening, thus retaining the trophy and becoming...
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Unless you have taken the wholly reasonable stance of avoiding the news over the past 10 days or so, you will be aware that the nation’s finance...
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Styles of every sort of clothing have evolved over time and the same goes for swimwear, an aspect of fashion dealt with in a London exhibition called ...
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