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Peter Rhodes on thunder, grandparents and bumping into that nice Mr Osbourne

Take a look around every street, mall and park as this school holiday enters its second week and ask yourself this: when the creators of the Welfare...

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Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on thunder, grandparents and bumping into that nice Mr Osbourne

Take a look around every street, mall and park as this school holiday enters its second week and ask yourself this: when the creators of the Welfare...

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Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on lightning, speeding and an unasked question at the BBC

I have experienced two close lightning strikes in the past few days, one so close that one could hear the air hiss and crackle before the flash. Funny...

25.07.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on lightning, speeding and an unasked question at the BBC

I have experienced two close lightning strikes in the past few days, one so close that one could hear the air hiss and crackle before the flash. Funny...

25.07.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on subtitles, the N-word and a new character in the White House

More innocent amusement, courtesy of television subtitles. Viewers following the Jeffrey Epstein affair must have been confused by the arrival of a...

24.07.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on subtitles, the N-word and a new character in the White House

More innocent amusement, courtesy of television subtitles. Viewers following the Jeffrey Epstein affair must have been confused by the arrival of a...

24.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on a royal birthday, religion in politics and how technology is replacing the Almighty

Ask your search engine: “What are the benefits of modern technology?” and you'll probably come across something like this artificial...

23.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on a royal birthday, religion in politics and how technology is replacing the Almighty

Ask your search engine: “What are the benefits of modern technology?” and you'll probably come across something like this artificial...

23.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on voting, harmony and how a smartphone saved a funeral

Forget all the meaningless blather about fairness and maturity. The Government's only reason for lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 is the hope...

22.07.2025 6

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on voting, harmony and how a smartphone saved a funeral

Forget all the meaningless blather about fairness and maturity. The Government's only reason for lowering the voting age from 18 to 16 is the hope...

22.07.2025 6

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on vandalism, skulls and luring savers off cash Isas

Star columnist Peter Rhodes talks about a 'mornonic mission' to fell the Sycamore Gap tree and more Two men who carried out a “moronic mission” to...

20.07.2025 4

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on depressions, tinkering and improving the weather

If there is one thing politicians simply cannot resist, it is the compulsion to tinker, pointlessly sticking their noses into every aspect of our...

18.07.2025 3

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on droughts, water-saving and the endless screening of Flight 171

It seems every time TV news covers the Air India disaster, we are shown those shattering final few seconds as 260 souls vanish into a boiling...

17.07.2025 2

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on droughts, water-saving and the endless screening of Flight 171

It seems every time TV news covers the Air India disaster, we are shown those shattering final few seconds as 260 souls vanish into a boiling...

17.07.2025 2

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on string, baked-bean tins and how a TV doctor is saving lives in the heatwaves

Star columnist Peter Rhodes looks back at the death of health guru Dr Michael Moseley and other hot topics amid the recent heatwave From beyond the...

17.07.2025 3

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on pantomimes, saxophones and harmless fun with a tapestry

What is the worst music to endure when you find yourself put on hold? After just enduring a long, long wait for “customer support,” I do not want...

15.07.2025 2

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on pantomimes, saxophones and harmless fun with a tapestry

What is the worst music to endure when you find yourself put on hold? After just enduring a long, long wait for “customer support,” I do not want...

15.07.2025 1

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on bats, badgers - and the end of the road for juries?

A reader who wants to demolish his old garage tells me the local council is first demanding a bat survey – which will cost a cool £500. Meanwhile,...

13.07.2025 2

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on bats, badgers - and the end of the road for juries?

A reader who wants to demolish his old garage tells me the local council is first demanding a bat survey – which will cost a cool £500. Meanwhile,...

12.07.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on reforming the police, a bestseller under fire and a lesson from Dickens

I reported a few days ago on sightings of people who, having read Raynor Winn's bestselling travel book, The Salt Path, are hiking around the coastal...

11.07.2025 9

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on reforming the police, a bestseller under fire and a lesson from Dickens

I reported a few days ago on sightings of people who, having read Raynor Winn's bestselling travel book, The Salt Path, are hiking around the coastal...

11.07.2025 9

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on silent phones, a letter from the taxman and the joy of spending other people's money

Any Questions (Radio 4) erupted in applause when someone suggested a wealth tax. And no wonder. There is a deep-rooted belief in British society that...

10.07.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on silent phones, a letter from the taxman and the joy of spending other people's money

Any Questions (Radio 4) erupted in applause when someone suggested a wealth tax. And no wonder. There is a deep-rooted belief in British society that...

10.07.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on broken phones, cheap imports and our powerlessness in a high-tech world

I referred yesterday to plans to redesign British banknotes. The only change I'd make is to make them out of something other than the springy plastic...

09.07.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on broken phones, cheap imports and our powerlessness in a high-tech world

I referred yesterday to plans to redesign British banknotes. The only change I'd make is to make them out of something other than the springy plastic...

09.07.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on public sobbing, diverse banknotes and a new take on Toad and Co

A friend who flew a lot once told me the only time you should be scared on an airliner is when the cabin crew start screaming. That's because, unlike...

09.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on public sobbing, diverse banknotes and a new take on Toad and Co

A friend who flew a lot once told me the only time you should be scared on an airliner is when the cabin crew start screaming. That's because, unlike...

08.07.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on free speech, full fibre and a new use for electric vehicles

“They don't sound like very nice people.” Political pundit on GB News, reacting to reports that the latest groups proscribed by the Government...

05.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on free speech, full fibre and a new use for electric vehicles

“They don't sound like very nice people.” Political pundit on GB News, reacting to reports that the latest groups proscribed by the Government...

05.07.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on breakfasts, burglars and a big bang from the bunker-busters

The over-technifying of our world progresses. For as long as I can recall, the summon to collect one's meal at a beach café has been announced by...

04.07.2025 3

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on terrorists, bandwagons and an app to keep you warm

Technology marches on and has now reached the stage where the instructions for the central heating in our holiday cottage begin: “First download the...

03.07.2025 4

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on terrorists, bandwagons and an app to keep you warm

Technology marches on and has now reached the stage where the instructions for the central heating in our holiday cottage begin: “First download the...

03.07.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on turtles, hammers and doing The Salt Path thing

Beer, south Devon. That's it for another year. Another restorative break in Beer is added to the great tapestry of life. Home again, we find the...

01.07.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on turtles, hammers and doing The Salt Path thing

Beer, south Devon. That's it for another year. Another restorative break in Beer is added to the great tapestry of life. Home again, we find the...

01.07.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on juries, on tumbleweed and on holiday

The sky seems to have forgotten how to rain but the fates still have a sense of humour. As drought stalks our brown and parched land, Chancellor...

21.06.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on juries, on tumbleweed and on holiday

The sky seems to have forgotten how to rain but the fates still have a sense of humour. As drought stalks our brown and parched land, Chancellor...

21.06.2025 8

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on dangerous trees, dramas in space and Londoners who want to paint it black

Residents of London's chic Notting Hill are fed up with tourists and film buffs swarming to take selfies against the famous backdrop of multi-coloured...

20.06.2025 4

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on dangerous trees, dramas in space and Londoners who want to paint it black

Residents of London's chic Notting Hill are fed up with tourists and film buffs swarming to take selfies against the famous backdrop of multi-coloured...

20.06.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on twilight wine, living forever and the problem with too many cooks

One year ago the King met a 100-year old veteran of D-Day, Richard Brock. Twelve months on, they met again and the King, recalling their previous...

19.06.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on twilight wine, living forever and the problem with too many cooks

One year ago the King met a 100-year old veteran of D-Day, Richard Brock. Twelve months on, they met again and the King, recalling their previous...

19.06.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on street football, irritating soundtracks and going batty for bats

Something called Raising the Nation Commission on Play is urging the Government to ban “No Ball Games” signs from streets across Britain. This is...

17.06.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on street football, irritating soundtracks and going batty for bats

Something called Raising the Nation Commission on Play is urging the Government to ban “No Ball Games” signs from streets across Britain. This is...

17.06.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on the fuel allowance, giving blood, and a new way to help the NHS

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is restoring the winter fuel allowance to all pensioners, but will claw it back from those earning more than £35,000 a year....

14.06.2025 4

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on bird wars, deadly batteries and a long wait for a rabbit

How will the Chancellor pay for her U-turn on the winter fuel allowance? Apparently we will not be told until October in the next full Budget. What...

14.06.2025 3

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on bird wars, deadly batteries and a long wait for a rabbit

How will the Chancellor pay for her U-turn on the winter fuel allowance? Apparently we will not be told until October in the next full Budget. What...

14.06.2025 4

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on the fuel allowance, giving blood, and a new way to help the NHS

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is restoring the winter fuel allowance to all pensioners, but will claw it back from those earning more than £35,000 a year....

13.06.2025 9

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on risky opinions, the bill for barracks and how Whitehall works

How government works. Civil servants have been drawing up a list of the sort of poisonous, hateful opinions that might justify a citizen being carted...

12.06.2025 5

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on risky opinions, the bill for barracks and how Whitehall works

How government works. Civil servants have been drawing up a list of the sort of poisonous, hateful opinions that might justify a citizen being carted...

12.06.2025 7

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on waders, warmongers and taking a guess at the future

There is what we in journalism call a lead-in on this column, a pause of a day or so before what is written actually appears. This means sometimes one...

11.06.2025 10

Peter Rhodes

Peter Rhodes on waders, warmongers and taking a guess at the future

There is what we in journalism call a lead-in on this column, a pause of a day or so before what is written actually appears. This means sometimes one...

11.06.2025 9

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Peter Rhodes on droughts, water-saving and the endless screening of Flight 171

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Peter Rhodes on droughts, water-saving and the endless screening of Flight 171

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Peter Rhodes on pantomimes, saxophones and harmless fun with a tapestry

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Peter Rhodes on bats, badgers - and the end of the road for juries?

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Peter Rhodes on bats, badgers - and the end of the road for juries?

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Peter Rhodes on reforming the police, a bestseller under fire and a lesson from Dickens

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Peter Rhodes on reforming the police, a bestseller under fire and a lesson from Dickens

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Peter Rhodes on silent phones, a letter from the taxman and the joy of spending other people's money

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Peter Rhodes on silent phones, a letter from the taxman and the joy of spending other people's money

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Peter Rhodes on broken phones, cheap imports and our powerlessness in a high-tech world

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Peter Rhodes on broken phones, cheap imports and our powerlessness in a high-tech world

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Peter Rhodes on public sobbing, diverse banknotes and a new take on Toad and Co

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Peter Rhodes on public sobbing, diverse banknotes and a new take on Toad and Co

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Peter Rhodes on free speech, full fibre and a new use for electric vehicles

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Peter Rhodes on free speech, full fibre and a new use for electric vehicles

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Peter Rhodes on breakfasts, burglars and a big bang from the bunker-busters

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Peter Rhodes on terrorists, bandwagons and an app to keep you warm

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Peter Rhodes on terrorists, bandwagons and an app to keep you warm

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Peter Rhodes on turtles, hammers and doing The Salt Path thing

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Peter Rhodes on turtles, hammers and doing The Salt Path thing

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Peter Rhodes on juries, on tumbleweed and on holiday

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Peter Rhodes on juries, on tumbleweed and on holiday

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Peter Rhodes on dangerous trees, dramas in space and Londoners who want to paint it black

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Peter Rhodes on dangerous trees, dramas in space and Londoners who want to paint it black

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