That great French export to our country, Eric Cantona, once inadvertently created a lot of interest round here in seagulls by producing a...

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...

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...

Although no one can actually find any record of her saying it, the novelist George Eliot is credited with coming up with that old...

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,...

When you are complaining about feral pigeons in Trafalgar Square, it is worth reminding yourself that, twenty feet or so below your own,...

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...

The particular regiment in which I spent nine years was famous for a number of things, one of which its comically successful and...

As the 45th Presidency in United States history glides to its dignified conclusion, and with sweetness and light very much the order of...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Dear Gavin Unusually, for me, I found myself watching Breakfast TV this morning whilst you were on it, and I found myself wondering idly...

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...

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...

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...

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...