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You may have heard of Heraklitos the philosopher who said “You can’t enter the same river twice”. This poem was a tribute by Kallimachos...

I read today that Rupert Murdoch is to be married for the fifth time. While I am not particularly interested in Murdoch, he is often...

There wasn’t the usual levity when I walked into my French village’s southern boulangerie early on Tuesday morning. The queue was quiet...

Any art dealer is going to regard me as hopelessly naïve and lacking in acumen but I would far rather have a beautiful painting by...

Gerrymandering is a fun word for something so pernicious to democracy. I have always loved the story of its origin. In 1812 the Governor...

Those of us who are just a touch old fashioned (and Stoker slightly ruefully so admits) had a strange frisson when scanning the various...

‘Echo chambers’ may not have been the word or phrase of 2023 (that was ‘authentic’ according to Merriam Webster; ‘rizz’, short for...

‘Winterreise’ was, fittingly, Schubert’s final work. He was checking the text for publishing just before he died.

I was one of the 1.2 million Brits who signed the petition calling for Paula Vennells, ex-Chief Executive of the UK's Post Office, to be...

The thirteenth of October 2023 was international day at our younger daughters’ school in Nairobi. On that day, the whole world was...