Taylor Swift is back in London this week, with a string of five shows in six nights starting at Wembley on Thursday evening. She was there for three g...
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Is it the sort of fantasy you would like – to be transported in a self-driving vehicle, or in a car piloted by a humanoid robot? Obviously that ...
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On Sunday evening the England football team became the country’s first men’s line-up to contest a major final outside England. Later that ...
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I was in Paris last week. France is in some turmoil at present. President Macron was so enraged by the poor performance of his own party, and the bett...
Read MoreThe City of Light & a country in chaos
A couple of weeks or so ago, Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said: “We must be ready for war by 2029.” He meant with Ru...
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The chief literary critic of The Times recently described Caledonian Road by Andrew O’Hagan (the cover is shown on the home page) as a novel ...
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At the beginning of last month, I spent some 36 hours in Portugal near a village called Comporta, about 75 miles south of Lisbon. It is a coming holid...
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My last fun blog involved a visit to Kew Gardens; so does this one. But this is very different, not least because the emphasis is on the outdoors rath...
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There is a famous old song written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David called Trains and Boats and Planes. It was perhaps most popularised by the American...
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