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- Eden Project founder Tim Smit in 'Heligan: The Complete Works' (Channel 4 Books).
Come on then. With the rain lashing us like we’re living in the end days so the helpless, sodden Earth bleeds muddy tears, let’s get it over with: Climate change. The argument boils down to this: are we, mankind, forcing Earth’s climate to change because of our voracious ways? Or is the Earth just going […]
I understand entirely that Lord McAlpine has been wrongly accused of a heinous crime. What I completely fail to grasp is how anybody thinks £185,000 of public money has anything to do with it. McAlpine, a wealthy man, has accepted the sum from an organisation that did not allege he was guilty of a heinous […]
What was it a great man once said? Ah yes, dear Clive Dunn in the immortal Dad’s Army: “They don’t like it up ’em!” As true now as it was then: the BBC has not liked it up ’em, not one little bit. If only the men and women in suits had listened to those […]
What a very strange experience is a fireworks display. For starters, the local Conservative MP took it upon herself to say a few well-chosen words. Brave, I thought, considering the proximity of a bonfire. How the assembled refrained from chucking her upon it was a tribute to English politeness in the face of adversity. […]