My Little Town
On a sultry night in New York, just over forty years ago, two unassuming Jewish boys from Queens District stepped onto a stage, looked...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Jan 31, 2021
- 3 min
Shores of White Sand
‘Through all of my youth I was looking for you,’ wrote yet another American poet you probably haven’t heard of, ‘Without knowing what I...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Nov 5, 2020
- 2 min
Light at the end of the Tunnel?
The wonderful Michael Kidson, who taught me History, had the uncanny knack of knowing when I was giving less than 100%, which, being a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Aug 21, 2020
- 3 min
Where you can put your Excellence
One of my proudest achievements as a schoolboy was the PE report that I picked up when I was about thirteen: ‘Morgan-Grenville,’ it said...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- May 24, 2020
- 2 min
A tiny joy of climate change
In a life comprising inexplicable and mainly unimpressive lists, there is one that stands out for me. Since I was about 8, I have kept a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Apr 23, 2020
- 3 min
Tintin and the Gift from China
Yesterday was bad. And I know I have no excuse. I am well; I live in a harmonious house with space and a garden; the world outside is...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Apr 16, 2020
- 2 min
The Problem of Porn
By and large, I like to give pornography a miss. Back in those top-shelf of WH Smith teenage years, or in the testosterone-fuelled police...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Feb 7, 2020
- 3 min
Staying alive. Just
I used to wear a suit, you know. I used to see my world through the prism of things my upbringing had taught me were sensible, probable...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Jan 16, 2020
- 2 min
380 words on why you just don’t know the half of it
Joe reads a couple of scientific papers each morning before he gets out of bed. It puts him in the mood for his day job, which is, er,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Jan 6, 2020
- 4 min
Lost in a Moment
One of the symptoms of ADD (attention deficit disorder) is an inability to live in the moment, otherwise known as the need for instant...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Dec 22, 2019
- 2 min
Premium Economy in the Cathedral
There should be an English word for the look of ineffable smugness on the face of a person turning left onto a long-haul flight, or one...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Sep 23, 2019
- 2 min
My toilet has a friend. Does yours?
This is all a bit delicate. My paternal granny said that there were three things you really shouldn’t talk about (politics, church and...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Aug 23, 2019
- 3 min
Tomorrow is not promised.
‘Life is all memory,’ said Tennessee Williams, ‘except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.’...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Apr 12, 2019
- 3 min
File Under ‘Miscellaneous’
No one actually buys a filing cabinet. Filing cabinets just appear in your house one day and, like that annoying Patek Philippe...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Mar 31, 2019
- 3 min
Flawed diamonds; flawless pebbles
The best time to plant a tree, as the old Chinese proverb goes, was twenty years ago; the second best time to plant one is now. As it...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Mar 24, 2019
- 2 min
The last thing I ever want to hear. Ever.
We heard her long before we saw her. Robbie Burns could ‘never hear her loud solitary whistle in a summer’s noon without feeling an...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Mar 16, 2019
- 4 min
Now for my dirty little secret…
Of course I bloody inhaled. What else did you think I was going to do? It would have taken a particular kind of idiot schoolboy to have...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Feb 10, 2019
- 3 min
It’s all Nehru’s fault.
IT’S ALL NEHRU’S FAULT. There is a fine line for men of a certain age to navigate between clinging onto the last vestiges of fashion, on...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Jan 19, 2019
- 2 min
How to go ‘Business Class’ at funerals
My Granny loved funerals. ‘You see the best of people there,’ she would say to us. She would not think of turning up ninety minutes...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
- Jan 14, 2019
- 3 min
Mate
On Thursdays, I work with trees. In the evolving Grenville life, this gives a welcome architecture to a week whose edges have become...
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