Everything before ‘but’ is bollocks. Dan taught me that. Dan was a Canadian major attached to my battalion in Hong Kong in 1980, and he...

“Humankind,’ said wildlife photographer Paul Oxton ‘must begin to learn that the life of an animal is in no way less precious than our...

D Dear Assistant Chief Constable, Further to my letter of the 8th January, I have now completed the speed awareness course you kindly...

A VERY BRITISH CRIME I did my bit yesterday, and ruined a criminal’s day. No, please! Anyone would have done the same. The crime I foiled...

370 years ago today, the joyless Puritans led Charles I out onto the balcony at Whitehall and, with one blow of the axe, removed his...

In my sixtieth year, I will understand that ageing is perception, not reality. I will not buy a coffee unless I have brought my own cup...

Bus stop crows. That’s what Passenger called them in a song a few years ago. Those hunched up, dark-quilted, sensibly-shod,...

Loss cuts many ways. When our lovely friend and club wicket keeper died seven years ago, a small group of us sat in the Queen’s Head in...

The short period of my life when I felt at my most wanted came down to a week in early 1988 in the Czech town of Liberec, which once...