The right don’t own tradition, but they can keep Morris dancing
How do we connect with the past when this impulse is often exploited by the worst people imaginable?
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I turn 60 and my children tease me – until they are reminded that they, too, are ageing
I may have a grey beard, but the wingèd chariot dawdles no more for them than it does for me.
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Sibling rivalry at backgammon has only one winner: not me
Up to London for the first day of the Ashes Test, and all I get is a hangover, Australian ascendancy…
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Why Glastonbury could do with a touch of snark
From festival coverage to nature documentaries, TV is so relentlessly cheerful that it brings out my inner curmudgeon.
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Letter of the week: I am Waterstones Dad
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Jeremy Clarke was a supreme chronicler of the hand-to-mouth life
I lament the loss of my fellow down-at-heel columnist. We aren’t the kind that hang around for long.
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This England: The great escape
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Letter of the week: House rules
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