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Summer in New England

Published in The Independent (May 22nd, 2004) Things began badly. After 15 years, I had finally persuaded my wife to go on holiday to the United States. I […]

Africa / Arts / Mali / Music

Songs of freedom

Published in The Independent (January 18th, 2004) The full moon was bathing the Saharan dunes in light as a middle -aged blind woman with two-tone braided hair and […]

Travel

Mussels and the click of Manolos

Published in The Independent (September 20th, 2003) The mussels arrived, plump and glistening in their shells. I counted 21 of them, together with a handful of sea urchins, […]

Health / Policy

Set us free to pay

Published in The Spectator (May 11th, 2002) During the phoney war before the last general election I attended a lunch with William Hague. He was in fine form, […]