A hard winter is coming – but in the garden, autumn’s pleasures are still there for the taking
Feeling a bit unproductive, I put on my boots and head outside to push broad beans into the earth.
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Down at the shoreline at night, the navigation lights on the horizon start speaking to me
During my evening jaunts, I revel in the crashing waves at my feet and the inscrutable Morse code of the…
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This England: The cones hotline
This column – which, though named after a line in Shakespeare’s “Richard II”, refers to the whole of Britain –…
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Personal story: Eton and the need to win
The Newcastle is Eton’s premier academic prize and has many famous past winners, including Boris Johnson, but rather than bringing enlightenment,…
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So, new flat, new views, new (old) furniture, but the one thing that isn’t new is me
As I squint through my window at the wind farm in the distance, I feel my next buy should be a…
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I may moan about moving house, but it seems I don’t know what stress really means
With the keys to my new abode finally in my pocket I breathe a sigh of relief, until I remember…
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Mad behaviour: the psychologist Joseph Henrich on what makes us weird
The Harvard professor on how most claims about human nature are based on people from “Western, educated, industrialised, rich, democratic societies”.
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A landlord will want my bona fides – but what if they read one of these columns?
As my impending homelessness looms, I remain at the mercy of estate agents and homeowners.
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