This England: Unscheduled pit stop
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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After six years of recording my life in this column, it is time to say goodbye
It will feel strange not to relay my life here, week by week, but it will also be freeing for…
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I am beset by boredom, a rare condition that’s not good for me
I forgot Damon Runyon’s name for the entire time it took me to walk from Waitrose to my flat
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The fascinating subculture of cryptic crosswords
If there’s a bit of mental torture in struggling towards a solution, well, isn’t that the point?
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How blue hair stopped being cool
It used to suggest playful rebellion. Now it suggests woke scold
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Never recommend Philip Roth to your mother
Her face was a mask of horror
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This was the first Godless year of my life
But I am not quite done with Him yet
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This England: Up, up and away
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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