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What has depressed you most about the world starting up again? Returning to work? The horrible weather? Not having the darts to watch? Well, I’ll...
Could this be the picture which defines the next period of British politics? There they were, like three brothers in arms, in front of a remarkable...
I wouldn’t exactly say that all I know about life I have learned from football, but I sometimes wonder what sort of a person I would have become had...
Way back in 1982, I joined The Observer as a young, impressionable journalist. On my first day in the office, I was invited to lunch by one of my...
Now that the railway workers and the junior doctors have settled their differences with the Government, it is left to a group of liberal-minded...
I live in a small village in Oxfordshire, at the foot of a valley through which the River Glyme – whose soft waters were once fundamental to the...
It is probably in keeping with the spirit of the age that Michael Westwood, our latter-day Wat Tyler, is a publican, whose mission is to sell the...
“There was no one quite like him in British politics.” Tony Blair said it first, and with the most authority. Alastair Campbell echoed the former...
Let’s take a mirror to a story that has been running in some newspapers for the past week, something that, for The Daily Telegraph at least,...
About 18 months ago, I was walking through central London with Gary Lineker, on our way to a dinner at which he was speaking. It was around the...
James McClean, at 35 years old, is coming towards the end of a 13-year professional football career in England that has taken in stints at...
On Tuesday evening, I texted a friend in America to say how fearful I was that Donald Trump would win the presidential election. He texted back,...