Dear Emmanuel
That great French export to our country, Eric Cantona, once inadvertently created a lot of interest round here in seagulls by producing a...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jul 7, 20223 min
Class
No one quite knows where they came from. Some say that Jimi Hendrix deliberately let them out; others that they flew in from an Ealing...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Dec 10, 20213 min
My Obituary. Flat-packed.
By far and away the best email I have received in the last week was the one from my regimental association asking me to present the...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 3, 20213 min
Kevin Macron and Me
Although no one can actually find any record of her saying it, the novelist George Eliot is credited with coming up with that old...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 1, 20213 min
Nine Meals from Anarchy
Now, you may call this a First World problem, but when Petworth runs dry of line-caught tuna, the writing is on the wall. For all I know,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
May 20, 20213 min
Shifting Baseline Syndrome
When you are complaining about feral pigeons in Trafalgar Square, it is worth reminding yourself that, twenty feet or so below your own,...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 11, 20212 min
What Boris Told Oprah
It’s all in the context, but obviously, we were taken by surprise. We had no idea that Boris had lined himself up to tell ‘his own’ truth...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 24, 20213 min
It’s Over
The particular regiment in which I spent nine years was famous for a number of things, one of which its comically successful and...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 20, 20213 min
These, too, are pardoned
As the 45th Presidency in United States history glides to its dignified conclusion, and with sweetness and light very much the order of...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 8, 20213 min
Smart Thinking
I wore a tie to work yesterday. By which I mean that, having sat at my desk since six in the morning learning about smallpox, I suddenly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 30, 20202 min
No Rivers. Please.
Question: why should the arrival of a new vaccine in Dar es Salaam in 1960 indirectly treble the number of giraffes 500 miles away and...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 22, 20203 min
Dear Boris (3)
Dear Boris Hope that all is well, and that the ‘oven ready’ trade deal and the ‘world-beating’ test-and-trace system are both in good...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Nov 20, 20203 min
Dear Mr Phillips-Davies
Dear Mr Phillips-Davies I’m not sure if it is usual practice to reply directly to the CEO with regard to a text communication, but I...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 6, 20203 min
Warning. Explicit Content Advised
If someone had said to me at the start of 2020 that there would be a global pandemic that reaches into every corner of the globe, and...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Oct 2, 20202 min
Sir David and me.
I like to think that Jesus first said ‘I am that I am’ after being asked unsuccessfully by Mary Magdalene to help with the washing up, by...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Aug 26, 20203 min
Dear Gavin
Dear Gavin Unusually, for me, I found myself watching Breakfast TV this morning whilst you were on it, and I found myself wondering idly...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Apr 27, 20202 min
Pavlov’s Hogs.
The number one dog is not having a good pandemic. The number two dog is fine. He finds the house unusually full of people, which is to...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 11, 20203 min
The Forty Page Rule
I have read around 2600 books in my life. You’ve probably done the same, give or take a few hundred either way. Years ago, I had a rule...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Mar 2, 20203 min
A Winter’s Tale
On April 2nd 1982, I lay on the snow in a surprising amount of my own blood, smoking a calming Marlboro and waiting for an ambulance. 32...
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Roger Morgan-Grenville
Jan 26, 20202 min
Day of days. Week of weeks
It sometimes takes a wet old night To grab the pen and start to write Those notes which, in default of rain, Just tend to linger in the...
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