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“Very flat, Norfolk” Noel Coward wrote in Private Lives (though I prefer the legend that he said it to the Queen Mother after she referred to a Royal weekend at Sandringham).  Norfolk certainly has that reputation; flat and remote with big skies.  North Norfolk, where your correspondent generally deploys his quill pen, is not flat; it is rolling, and wooded, and really rather mysterious and beautiful.  Move east from here though and there is a definite feeling that the land i

Now is not the time for charity. At least officially, as Governments swap aid for arms. In extreme cases whole aid departments have been wiped out. In February this year the website for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) ceased to exist – apart from a terse statement announcing ‘notification...

I was driving down to our rain-forest patch last week while still on a main road to Kisumu on the eastern shores of Lake Victoria, when I saw a large crowd on both sides of the road. I assumed it to be an accident but I saw no motor vehicle. I slowed, stopped the car, got out and spotted a small snake on the side of the road surrounded by an excitable crowd looking fearful and agitated. I walked straight...

There are two sharply opposing views on eucalypts, a genus of over 700 species native mainly to Australia, and mostly trees. A small...

Last month I wrote to Only Connect’s editor, Richard Pooley, asking: ‘Where was the leadership and strategy plan that the EU’s Brussels...