Last month the Honourable Company of Edinburgh Golfers at Muirfield became the Hopeless Collection of Egregious Geriatrics when, in defiance of the re...
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This understated but beguiling story (it’s a U certificate) is based on a Jane Austen novella called Lady Susan, which she wrote at the age of ...
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A crosstown journey, from Spitalfields to Soho – pretty easy by tube, could be an hour in a cab. First stop, pretty close to Liverpool Street s...
Read MoreFOOD: Danger food? – the garlic’s wild, the kidneys devilled
My latest flight was to Lisbon, the Portuguese capital and veritably a fabulous city. It was a notable flight: it may have been the first one I’...
Read MoreFLYING: Taking a trip with TAP (and other airline acronyms)
I recently spent a few days with my wife in Lisbon, our first visit there. Strictly it’s not paradise, it’s only Portugal, but neverthel...
Read MoreFOREIGN: Loving life in Lisbon…if only for one week
The groovy French fashion brand Vetements introduced a DHL T-shirt at a Paris catwalk show last autumn. When it became available to buy earlier this...
Read MoreFASHION: Trendy courier T-shirts and unbuyable bags – you couldn’t make it up
In Terence Malick’s latest film Knight of Cups, Christian Bale plays Rick (just ‘Rick’ – there are only Christian names in Chr...
Read MoreFILM: In which Christian is in his cups
I was rooting around among my old golf clubs the other day – getting some of them out for the photograph you see here, in fact – when one ...
Read MoreGOLF: Something old, some things new
There was an old advertising-copy line for Mars bars which read ‘A Mars a Day helps you Work, Rest and Play’. It’s so old, in fact, ...
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