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You are, I’m sure, a better world citizen than me. As soon as you saw, on 9 August, the words “It is a code red for humanity”

By Mark Nicholson I took a train to Mombasa last week on the Chinese standard gauge railway (SGR, 1.435m) partly out of curiosity and...

I have to confess that for me and my family, following a fairly busy series of lock-downs, this summer and certainly this last month...

By Vincent Guy Photo by Roger Mayne I can’t say I learned a lot at Oxford University, but I did get a lesson for life from Dr Zbigniew...

On July 11, I sent our two youngest girls back to school. At least I thought I did. Their journey as usual starts at 0100am

One afternoon late last year I watched a young woman having a smoke on the pavement below my study window in Bath.

‘Cower’: a useful and descriptive verb which aptly describes the response of a great many people...

The on-line abuse of three young black footballers following the heroic but ultimately unsuccessful attempt of the England team...

Forget the pinging. Time to get chuffing. Summer in England has arrived at last (though it may have departed by the time you read this)...

I am abroad; out of the UK and in France. My wife and I escaped Bath and then London on Tuesday last week by train