Every day of your life (no matter how unexceptional) contains perfect moments (no matter how fleeting). My friend Nicholas Creswell tweeted something wonderful to me the other week: “I do find my most treasured and vivid memories […]
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London is recreating
“London is recreating.” Three simple words to sum up London? London never ceases to reinvent itself, to recreate itself and to work (if I might for a second time quote these words from Clive James*) “its eternal trick of showing the next generation that the possibilities are infinite, and everything has begun again.” Permanent renewal […]
The most James Bond sentence ever written?
James Bond, Agent 007 and possessor of the licence to – in a very real sense – kill, is by no means a nice person. Ian Fleming’s Bond novels are remarkably entertaining, superbly and sparely written, and in many ways to the sensitivities of the modern reader, very wrong. I wish to celebrate perhaps the […]
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