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Cranking slowly into action

This festive period I took some time off from my duties with National Rust … [Actually no, let me begin that again. The unvarnished truth is that I have no duties on the Rust, whose creed is about as loose – and therefore as liberating – as you could possibly find in the world of journalism [...]

January 5, 2015 // 0 Comments

Highlights of the day

We asked a selection of our writers to nominate not the highlights of last year but the New Year i.e. yesterday. Tom Hollingworth: I still love every year writing into my diary from the Telegraph Sports Calender the  key events. This year it will be the Ashes though I am disappointed there are no [...]

January 2, 2015 // 0 Comments

The start of another one

You can call me a curmudgeonly old git if you like, but last night I avoided all special plans and went to bed at 9.10pm both because it was my bedtime and I was tired. Ironically, I then woke up with a start, heard on Radio Five Live that it was 11.40pm, and decided to get up and see the New Year [...]

January 1, 2015 // 0 Comments

Re-heating old stories

My apologies for returning again to the subject of supposedly ‘new’ historical revelations – specifically my objection to them being used to gain publicity for new books (or new editions of old books) etc. –  again, but I am minded to do so by a letter that appears in The [...]

December 31, 2014 // 0 Comments

To London and back

Staying in the country with my parents for the duration of the festive season, yesterday I was nevertheless obliged by prior arrangement to journey to London for a meeting which had been set up some time ago, before I knew where I would be spending Christmas (if you see what I mean). The meeting [...]

December 30, 2014 // 0 Comments

Could do better

There is a film coming out shortly – Testament Of Youth – a new screen version of Vera Brittain’s memorable tale of her life and loves during WW1. As part of the publicity surrounding its launch, a good deal of media attention has been given to a new  biography of her – [...]

December 28, 2014 // 3 Comments

A near-perfect afternoon

Cold temperatures and winds outside in West Sussex, the food shopping done, a gin & tonic plus two glasses of very acceptable claret and a butternut-squash soup and baguette lunch in your stomach, a bright wood-burning fire blazing in the grate and BT Sport’s live coverage of Harlequins v [...]

December 28, 2014 // 0 Comments

Ah well …

I’m fairly confident that I notched another milestone on the route to senility yesterday. Having travelled some way in the morning in advance of our Christmas meal with relatives, we handed over our presents and then together set off en masse across London to spend an hour raising a pre-lunch [...]

December 26, 2014 // 0 Comments

A chance discovery

By choice, my family and I are having a quiet Christmas – both my wife’s and my own mother having passed away in the past twelve months. However, it was pleasing to receive a “Have you seen this?” email from my brother yesterday, linking me to a piece by Graham Fraser [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

Greetings from festive land!

I hope you and yours are about to have a terrific festive period, enjoy your reunions with your friends, families and loved ones, eat and drink far too much, fall asleep after your lunch – or main – meal and generally have a good time. Yesterday (Christmas Eve) my traditional ritual of [...]

December 25, 2014 // 0 Comments

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