On the wall above my desk is a quote from Virginia Woolf. This is it: “Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail; how he wrote and it seemed good; read and it seemed...
Read MoreIt’s the coy half-smile. The knitted jumper. The diminutive stance, the thatch of brown hair with just the whisper of a mullet, the huge, plaintive eyebrows. What else? The voice, full of humour and heartache. The lyrics, most...
Read MoreAnother day, another bone-scorchingly uncomfortable video of the Prime Minister doing the rounds. On August 28, Theresa May touched down for a three-day trade visit to South Africa, Nigeria and Kenya. That afternoon, BBC News at...
Read More“To be honest, I’m knackered.” If you’d asked me how I felt after I crossed the finish line of this year’s Great North Run, chances are I’d have said something along those lines (punctuated by wheezes, gasps and, quite possibly,...
Read MoreI’m the first to admit that I know very little about ships. A lifelong fear of swimming has meant that apart from a school trip on a ferry from Hull to Zeebrugge – and a channel crossing from Dover as a five-year-old...
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