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Ed Miliband may have gone, but the spectre of net zero still looms over this once green and pleasant land. The vandalising of ancient properties, the installation of acres of Chinese-made solar panels, the constant thrum of subsidised wind...
Time almost stands still in Pieter de Vries’s antiquarian map and book shop in the historic centre of Haarlem. The 60-year-old Dutchman specialises in maps, illustrations and prints, many dating back to the 16th and 17th centuries. He also...
He was a brooding, wild-eyed Catalan, who – crucially – did not leave half-drunk cups of tea on the lavatory cistern or dirty underpants on the bedroom floor. I was in my late 20s, working long hours in a London office job and in a...
Living with my husband is like being in a simplistic sitcom in which the protagonist has a different self-induced mishap each episode. My reserves of sympathy have run dry. Recently, we spent the weekend with his adult son from his first...