Friday, May 10, 2013

For those in peril on the sea

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“Eternal Father, strong to save, Whose arm hath bound the restless wave.” The school hymn of Pangbourne College, alma mater of Andrew S...
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Thursday, April 18, 2013

No news is good news

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This is a dreadful thing for a journalist to admit, but I often wish that there was no news and that events would take a day off. Not th...
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Wednesday, April 17, 2013

Margaret Thatcher: a Prime Minister for the nuance-free Twitter age

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It was a Thursday morning, double-history. I can’t recall what we were meant to be studying — almost certainly the Nazis or the Tudors sin...
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Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Pats on the back

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The Times was named Sports Newspaper of the Year last night by the Sports Journalists Association. It was pleasing not just because it was...
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Monday, March 25, 2013

The Nightmair before Breakfast

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“You’re a nasty piece of work, aren’t you?” Eddie Mair’s interview with Boris Johnson yesterday morning was a brutal disembowelling, a d...
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Friday, March 08, 2013

Plum sauce

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The news that Sebastian Faulks is to take on the mantle of PG Wodehouse and write a new Jeeves and Wooster novel 40 years after the last,...
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Friday, March 01, 2013

Don't let the Loonies win. Any of them

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The biggest losers of the Eastleigh by-election were not the Tories or the Labour Party, they were the Monster Raving Loonies, whose ca...
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