A visit to the Centro Botin in Santander, itself a gloriously located small city (population about 170,000) in Cantabria on Spain’s northern Atl...
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You may have read that Hugh Hefner died recently, aged 91. In theory at least, being the founder of the Playboy empire, he had lived the sort of of li...
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I flew back into Stansted from Spain last Thursday. The flight was about 90 minutes late getting in. When your flight is scheduled to land at 11 in th...
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Just like a London bus, you wait ages for a new tennis film and then two come along almost at once. At the end of November there’ll be the Batt...
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On ‘Super Thursday’, the big autumn book-publishing date which this year fell on September 7, the chief offering from Penguin Viking was t...
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After two decades of enjoying the lavish banquets of Champions League football, Arsenal supporters this season are having to make do with supping grue...
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On holiday in France recently, we were obviously looking forward to the food. I mean, who doesn’t? Mostly we ate at home but there were a few tr...
Read MoreFOOD: Encore un fois
Specifically, and not for the first time as a family, we were entranced in Provence. I think the region is glorious, which I know is not a singular op...
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Tomorrow it will all be over. The calendar will signal the end of August and the turning into September will mean that the party has ended for another...
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