It is time. I fear I have overstayed my allotted spell and getting close to my sell-by-date. In 1998 I started writing a column “Letters...

First time in Ascot is no place for acting shy or being frugal. Forget the cost I tell my good-natured husband. If we are going to do...

Whenever embarking in a new venture it is best keep your expectations low. This is lost on me, an unrealistic optimist who starts most...

It was a dark and stormy night. We were heading to dinner on the other side of London, late, buckets of rain coming down from the...

Will make you nostalgic for things you didn’t even know you missed. Wales is one. Listening to the great star with a booming voice...

It seems like yesterday that mental issues were mentioned only in a no-contest divorce. It was the polite way of wiggling out of...

“I have found it impossible to carry the heavy burden of responsibility and to discharge my duties………I now quit altogether public affairs...

Two events shaped my life. The discovery of writing as a way to transfer words was the first; my understanding of what could be shared...

‘Tis Christmas again; I didn’t catch Covid but Covid finally caught up with me. For the past months I have been unable to write....

We all need rescuing sometimes, from a clear and present danger or an embarrassing situation; seldom both and seldom involving ladders. ...

You know that feeling when you think you’re on top of your game, walking with unchallenged assurance, the world in the palm of your hand?...

For a week it's been on the front pages of every newspaper in the UK: the abduction, rape and murder of 33-year old Sarah Everard by a...

The world that is Kabul is awash with tears, living in unspeakable horror. This is looking back at a time without such fear and shame....

A day as good as any to take stock and look around. The Allies have left Afghanistan at the right or the wrong time. It does not matter...

It started when I was small on a small island in a small country, my love for islands. The country was Panama, the island was Taboga and...

As the saying goes, “America and England are two countries separated by a common language”. Taking it one step further you get: “South...

You know things are definitely becoming awry when British pols start having more liaisons dangereuses than their French...

Chelsea is young. Young couples, good looking people with young kids. The ones that don’t have kids have Lamborghinis.I am often the...

In the not-so-distant year 2000 George W. Bush won the Presidential Election over Alan Gore by one Electoral Vote -Gore got half a...

You know all is well in, in at least a part of the world, when the big thing is what to do (or not to do) about sausage. This is the...