We die twice; once when we actually die, and once when those who remember us die. As a former soldier, I have developed a little informal...

Rather in the same vein as the extraordinary size that the venue would have had to have been if everyone who says they were there,...

Happy days are here again. Writers of all shapes and sizes are finally back on the road again in front of audiences in town halls, shops ...

‘If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,’, said Albert Einstein ‘it will spend its whole life thinking it is stupid.’ He is...

As many of you know, I am setting off on Monday for a 1,000 mile walk from Lymington to Cape Wrath. A bit bonkers, but it’s not exactly...

A man sees what he wants to see, and disregards the rest. When I was about seven or eight, I had this fancy that my parents would one day...

‘Failure,’ as Henry Ford never tired of pointing out, ‘is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.’ So,...

In every sense, it is the calm before the storm, whether it is tomorrow’s weather, or my 1,000 mile walk in two and a half weeks’ time. I...

I first came across the concept of love as a phenomenon that reached beyond mere families, when my parents came home one day, rather...

Meat Loaf was sort of cool in my family until Tom was about thirteen, and someone at school told him he (Meat Loaf) was ‘properly shite’,...

It is not up to me to pass judgement on his faculties, but the last President of the United States was allegedly keen on expressing the...

My ambitions for 2022 amount to little more than our young football team winning the World Cup in Qatar, and neither Boris Johnson nor...

Back in 1962, the ex-wandering Jain monk and tireless campaigner for peace and the environment, Satish Kumar, started a walk from the...

My first pay packet came to me in September 1976 in a barn, in the form of an envelope that had £15.20 in it, being forty times the...

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...

If you had a load of money to burn, and used some of it to take a sophisticated genetic test, the chances are that you would discover...

Just how weird these times are is underscored by the fact that, when I took treats out to the three Border Leicester sheep I am looking...

The last time I flew anywhere was 21 months ago, when I came back soaked and knackered from a hectic week of bird research off County...

I think that we all have a predisposition to look in a certain direction. Mine is just west of north. Not fjord north, walrus north or...

On a sultry night in New York, just over forty years ago, two unassuming Jewish boys from Queens District stepped onto a stage, looked...