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One afternoon late last year I watched a young woman having a smoke on the pavement below my study window in Bath.

‘Cower’: a useful and descriptive verb which aptly describes the response of a great many people...

The on-line abuse of three young black footballers following the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt of the England team...

Forget the pinging. Time to get chuffing. Summer in England has arrived at last (though it may have departed by the time you read this)...

I am abroad; out of the UK and in France. My wife and I escaped Bath and then London on Tuesday last week by train

Until Mr Hancock’s diversionary tactics were deployed last week the excuses were flowing thick and fast from the UK’s Conservative party

In 1841 a son is born to a housemaid in Wales. The father is unknown but the birth is registered in the records

I am not a monarchist. As First Secretary in the British High Commission in Kuala Lumpur during a visit by Princess Margaret in 1990

There are around thirty monarchies today reigning over forty-five countries. So, there is no argument...

Commenting on my earlier article of 5 May 2021 about the issue of independence for Scotland, one reader, describing himself as a “Proud...