David Hockney, the Yorkshire-born artist who has probably become most famous for his depictions of places in California and France (especially as in N...
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I recently enjoyed a four-day break in southern mainland Greece, in the Peloponnese, with one of my sons and his girlfriend. We played some golf, dran...
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Last week I went abroad for a short break, specifically taking a flight that went from Gatwick to Kalamata in the Peloponnese region of southern mainl...
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OK, so strictly this is not film: it’s an eight-part adaptation of a book on the Disney+ channel. But these days the crossover is such that it n...
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The biggest fiscal curse facing the nation, we have repeatedly been told by the government and the Bank of England, is inflation. The country has been...
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The winner of the 2021 Booker Prize was Damon Galgut, a white South African writer whose book, The Promise (the cover is shown on the home page), is a...
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The latest inside-track sports series in the Netflix canon (in the wake of the FI-based Drive to Survive), follows professional golf on the PGA T...
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I don’t think there is anything particularly fashionable about February but for sure this item is seasonal, especially if we’ve had a spri...
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I have in the past warbled on about parliamentarians and golf. I particularly remember Liam Fox, who used to be a minster of something or other in one...
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