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Ameer Kotecha

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The martini is making a comeback

In P.G. Wodehouse’s Cocktail Time (1958) the characters are frequently ‘lapping up martinis like a vacuum cleaner’. Wodehouse was living...

04.05.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

HMS Trump and the art of a diplomatic gift

The King’s state visit to the US has been a triumph. His Majesty managed to put most of Capitol Hill into a state of giddy excitement, helped along...

02.05.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

This is no way to stop the scourge of shoplifting

The ‘tide may be turning’ on shoplifting according to our ever-hopeful Prime Minister – despite the fact shoplifting offences have soared by 133...

28.04.2026 10

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Keir Starmer has been brutally exposed

There has been quite enough talk of process. In the past few days, we have heard more about vetting forms, meeting minutes and stultifyingly boring...

22.04.2026 10

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Starmer can’t blame the civil service for the Mandelson fiasco

Of all the politicians to take up arms against Sir Humphrey, Keir Starmer is the most unlikely. After all, this dream-free embodiment of bland...

21.04.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

This is why shoplifting is rife in Britain

Walker Smith, 54, who has worked as a store assistant at Waitrose for the past 17 years, has been fired for trying to stop a shoplifter.  This is the...

07.04.2026 10

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Ameer Kotecha

The scourge of London’s chicken shops

25.07.2025 20

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Grape Britain: English wine is having its moment in the sun

20.06.2025 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Changing tastes / Is the Lake District still as Wainwright described it?

16.06.2025 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Flying has lost its charm

30.05.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha

The Lord of the Rings gave me my moral compass

09.05.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha

The reinvention of limoncello

02.05.2025 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Lindt has cheapened itself

19.04.2025 30

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Trad Lads / The return of the Young Fogey

07.04.2025 10

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Ameer Kotecha

Oxford's new safe space

15.03.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha

Something to relish / In praise of Patum Peperium

03.03.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha

Fat chance / In defence of lard

17.02.2025 20

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Ameer Kotecha