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“Not again! What’s the fascination with African wildlife? You can see it all in Attenborough’s documentaries.” Such was the reaction...

This little story starts with me waiting nervously in the anteroom of a Magistrates Court in Brighton in 1975, not because of any crime,

Kate Simpson, a rising star at MI6 and thrilled to be back in London after her Moscow posting, studies James Oliphant, the improbably...

This line from ‘Beyond the Fringe’, the satirical show of 1960, makes fun of the idea that carrots might be useful for improving...

Roedean, the prestigious private girls’ school in Brighton, announced recently that it is holding lessons on issues which will affect its...

There are still plenty of ‘old schoolers’ who believe that both doctors and vets, like clergymen, are following a vocation. Apart from...

In “To A Louse, On Seeing One on a Lady’s Bonnet at Church”, one of Robert Burns’ most amusing yet profound poems, written in 1786, the...

We must begin with abject apologies to Jan Morris; that great writer, doyenne of travellers, and Celtic poet, whose book title we have...

We live in an age of golden travel. Never has it been so easy to go so far and wide. Yet moving around also has limitations, bounded by...

Bravo, Vincent! The United States of America’s self-inflated bubble of arrogance, stupidity and self-indulgence deserves to be punctured ...