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Nov 7 2008
WHEN listening to Desert Island Discs, I was always flummoxed by the request for a luxury item, until I heard former MP Tony Benn say that his would be a never-ending supply of tea....
Nov 5 2008
CAN you sing? I realise it is rather forward of me to ask, a bit like enquiring after the state of your lumbago or whether you had second helpings of roast potatoes on Sunday....
Nov 5 2008
CAN you sing? I realise it is rather forward of me to ask, a bit like enquiring after the state of your lumbago or whether you had second helpings of roast potatoes on Sunday....
Nov 4 2008
This is a routine. Each morning I release them from the hutch, to which I return them each night, after earning my carrot at the office. For long, in the generosity of their spirit, the rabbits have known that our brush is just that, a brush. Even so, they skip before its rasping advance to spare my feelings, before leaping into the hutch with all the insouciance of the young....
Oct 31 2008
GAP. The one that now definitely exists between London and the rest. For years, probably centuries, including the often mis-quoted two-nations line attributed to Disraeli, there has always been a gap between how the folk live, think and act in London, and those outside....
Oct 27 2008
WE’RE only three- quarters through 2008, but I’m ready to nominate my man of the year....
Oct 22 2008
THERE was something afoot at the dry cleaners – judging by the funny feeling in the air and panicked look in the manager’s eye as I pushed open the door....
Oct 17 2008
NANO. All that’s left when you’ve tried macro and micro. We’ve had the top-down multi-billion macro schemes like improved infrastructure and inner-city refurbishments. We’ve had multi-million micro schemes like computers and laptops for all, but somehow we don’t seem to have come up with a regeneration programme that reaches the parts others don’t....
Oct 16 2008
THAT dress. Even without the picture at the bottom of this column, with those two simple words you know exactly the item of clothing I am talking about, don’t you?...
Oct 15 2008
LAST night, I dreamt I was walking through an urban landscape that was both familiar and unknown....
