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The last few days saw someone’s career destroyed on the basis of a shaky handheld video, posted by one party to a dispute who clearly had an agenda. We…
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Today, I attended a harvest service. The sermon was as you'd expect: about being grateful for what the Lord provides and working towards sharing what w…
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I'm reporting to you from the Adriatic - in fact, sitting in a cafe in Split as I write this. Of this part of the world, Winston Churchill once said it…
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I’m on a cruise as you read this - I’m writing the day before I leave and will set this to send a few days later (so you, my kind readers, don’t feel a…
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Plenty of people are talking about how the pandemic has changed the world of work. If Covid had appeared 20-30 years ago (before Amazon, before Zoom) t…
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I have never been what you'd call outdoorsy. I like nature. But I've never worn a North Face fleece, or had any use for a caribiner. And yet something …
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Well, to the surprise of few people we've had confirmation this week that Andrew Cuomo is a handsy creep. Men in power turning out to be abusive of the…
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Recently I was writing a piece on amusement parks, not the theme parks that are around today, but rather the historic kind that really flourished in th…
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When I go to shop for clothes, I could be buying an outfit that wouldn’t look out of place in the 1950s, 1970s, or 1990s (except perhaps for the amount…
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I've written a couple of pieces recently about murder and crime. First, the Bath school bombing of 1927, and then I reviewed a book on the phenomenon o…
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In a piece for this month’s Spectator US, I review a book about the “girl stunt journalists” of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some of whose w…
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In The Critic this month, I write about two recent books on our relationship with work. The pandemic moment has led people to reassess their relationsh…
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