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

If you were to google ‘making people happy’, you would find around 7.8 billion threads to follow up. Ironically, this is within 1% of the...

The next two weeks or so are really quite important for the future of our planet, for us, and for the people who share it with us. We may...

I don’t have many names to drop. And my tragedy is that, most of the few that I do are either unknown outside my immediate age group and...

According to the Living Planet Index, who track population moves among 4,000 vertebrate species, there has been a 68% decline between...

Hopefully, you’ve just been watching Prince William’s Earthshot awards on BBC1, in which the first of ten years worth of £1 million...

Home alone yesterday morning, I devoted my breakfast exclusively listening to an hour of the Chieftains playlist on Spotify, in honour of...

I think I only did it twice. I think that only two images of what I was eating needed to appear on social media before the waiting world...

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,...

For my appearance on Desert Island Discs, the details of which are hopefully being arranged even now between my agent and the BBC, I have...

A couple of months ago, I came breathtakingly close to being able to say something polite about our Prime Minister. Obviously, the moment...

You are supposed to mean your New Year’s resolutions, and I sort of did. When I told Caroline, at about 11.30pm on our understated solo...

Back in our Covid Christmas, one of my sons told me that the most irritating thing about arguing with me was that I always spoke with the...

Suddenly, your soul empties. I suppose it’s what tanks do, when you don’t top them up. Mine did. Around six or seven weeks ago, which is...

Andy Warhol’s idea that ‘the most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet’ has some traction at the moment. And...

Some time back in 2019, a local Dutch guy in a bar in Scheveningen shook my hand and said: ‘Don’t worry. You’re Brits. It will be...

What’s a white stork got to do with England’s football match against Germany this evening? To find out, we have to start with the...

Those of us who have issues with our attention span, call it deficit if you must, have a strange but fundamental sadness in our lives, to...

You are, apparently, unique. You come from the only species on earth that employs what is known as ‘cultural evolution’ as a strategy for...

Some things are easier to own up to than others. Sometime in April 1978, for example, an army recruitment panel, asked me if I had ever...