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Arabella Byrne

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Founding fathers / Heaven is a Trad Dad

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Arabella Byrne

Gold standard / The signet ring is back

Gold standard / The signet ring is back
yesterday 7

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Arabella Byrne

Founding fathers / Heaven is a Trad Dad

Founding fathers / Heaven is a Trad Dad
31.01.2025 6

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Arabella Byrne

Heaven is a Trad Dad

Heaven is a Trad Dad
30.01.2025 9

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Arabella Byrne

Founding fathers / Heaven is a Trad Dad

Founding fathers / Heaven is a Trad Dad
30.01.2025 10

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Arabella Byrne

The slow death of Chelsea

The slow death of Chelsea
18.01.2025 10

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Arabella Byrne

New leaf / The strange revenge of Trudeau’s ex-wife

Eleanor Roosevelt said that the role of the First Lady was not a job but rather a circumstance. For Sophie Grégoire Trudeau, it is even more...

08.01.2025 8

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Arabella Byrne

Scottish reeling is the last preserve of the posh

The new year is almost upon us, and it’s time to dust off the taffeta dress and tartan sash and sally forth to the annual reel. No doubt you will...

31.12.2024 1

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Where posh kids go to pull

This week, in honour of its 70th anniversary, the Feathers Association released photos of youths aged 14 to 16 at its annual Christmas charity...

13.12.2024 10

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Arabella Byrne

Charlbury chic / Why do posh men love the Nehru jacket?

At a recent drinks party in Oxfordshire, I counted five men wearing Nehru waistcoats. Not one of these men looked like he was paying homage to the...

06.12.2024 4

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Arabella Byrne

Wax and wane / Revenge of the rural Barbour

Time was, a Barbour meant one thing: the classic Beaufort model that stank of wax, wet dog, and had pockets stuffed with cartridges from a shoot....

22.11.2024 10

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Arabella Byrne

Puffed up / The anti-smoking drugs don’t work

Ten years ago, I decided that I should stop smoking. Before this decision, I had never given it a second thought. ‘Want to step outside for...

13.11.2024 3

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Arabella Byrne

An ode to Boden

Way back in the noughties, Charles Moore observed that the Conservatives could learn a lot from the Boden story. ‘An individualistic,...

04.10.2024 3

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Arabella Byrne

Brought to book / The pitfalls of the Accelerated Reader programme

To my enormous pride, my six-year-old daughter is an excellent reader. In Reception, she raced through the colour-coded chart of Biff & Chip books...

09.09.2024 1

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Arabella Byrne

Doing the bins has become an unbearable faff

Benjamin Franklin famously observed that there are only two certainties in life, death and taxes. But there are in fact three certainties: death,...

02.09.2024 1

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Arabella Byrne

Big top / An alternative to Giffords Circus

I’ve never been seduced by the circus. As a motif in children’s literature, particularly taken up by Enid Blyton and Disney. In fact, as an animal-...

13.08.2024 2

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Baguette binge / Vive le Supermarché!

It’s 7.54 a.m. and we are waiting for the doors of the Intermarché St Remy de Provence to open. A vast sense of excitement is building within our...

05.08.2024 1

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Arabella Byrne

Drop it like it’s hot / The enduring appeal of Snoop Dogg

I’m in Provence for my annual jaunt to the land of bulls, Pernod and lavender. All over our small French village, fever for the Jeux...

26.07.2024 2

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Arabella Byrne