In Agadir I stole a lemon. It had toppled from the pyramid on a market stall where an old man lost in thought sat stroking his grey beard. The lemon had rolled a few feet away. I picked it up and should have put it back on the pile. I didn’t. I tossed it from […]
Monthly Archives: July 2022
THAT IS THE CHOICE GOD HELP US
We are trapped between the devil and the deep blue sea. Excuse the cliché. That is the choice. God help us. The tricky, smooth-talking devilish three-quarter billionaire and former American Green Card holder Rishi Sunak and the deeply out-of-her-depth, obnoxiously silly and profoundly dull Liz Truss. Following in the footsteps of war leader Winston Churchill, […]
HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON
Rishi Sunak should not be racing to be Prime Minister. He should be in prison. Such is the quality of the eight candidates who have set their sights on No 10. With his wife Akshata Murty, Sunak at 42 is worth an eye-watering £730 million – a sum beyond the vision or imagination of the […]
THE FOURTH MAN
Nobody remembers the fourth man in the Olympics. Or the climbers who followed Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay to the peak of Everest. Who took to the stage at the Royal Ballet after Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn? In the 2012 Olympics, Mo Farah won gold in the 10,000 metres. He went on to win the 5,000 metres […]
WHY BORIS JOHNSON GAVE CHRIS PINCHER THE WHIP
Chris Pincher, the Tory party deputy chief whip, quit his job after drunkenly groping two men at a Conservative Party private members club. He admitted ‘drinking too much’ and embarrassing himself and other people. Mr Johnson initially stood by Pincher, but eventually ‘withdrew the whip,’ meaning Pincher lost his status as a Tory MP, though […]