Baseball seldom makes major-league sports headlines in the UK for a very good reason: it’s America’s game. That changed a little in early...
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Jonathan Safran Foer has previously published two works of fiction, both big books tackling big subjects – the Holocaust and 9/11. His third eff...
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On Wednesday evening, Arsenal were at home in the Champions League group stage – ‘Match Day 5’, as it’s described – ag...
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Harrods is a national institution. Make that an international institution. The enormous store (pictured on the home page) is on Brompton Road in Knigh...
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So The Donald’s fantasy, a frightmare for some others, has come true. He is to be the next President of the United States of America. Two weeks...
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One of the oddest things about the Oktoberfest, the world-famous Munich beer festival, is that it mostly takes place in September. If you’re thi...
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The judges of the Man Booker Prize for fiction, the 2016 renewal of which was awarded and presented on Tuesday evening, are invariably and inevitably ...
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What is it with Brighton and the ‘P’ word? Or words? There’s the famous Brighton Pavilion, there is still one celebrated Brighton Pi...
Read MoreFUN: Brighton rocks – if sometimes a bit too literally!
Below is a bit of nonsense I wrote and stuck on my blog on June 26, three days after the citizens of the United Kingdom had voted for us to leave the...
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