‘My funny old week’ WHERE I’VE BEEN

Climbing a mountain in the Brecon Beacons with the whole family and our dogs to work off the legacy of Christmas.

WHAT I’VE BOUGHT A DNA ancestry kit. I’ve dark hair and eyes born of an English family but grew up in Lebanon. There was talk of Huguenots and Spaniards shipwrecked in the Armada.

WHO I’VE MET The journalist Jon Ronson, who’s just done a fantastic series of podcasts on the origins of cancel culture. I’m a big fan.

WHAT I’VE SEEN Peter Jackson’s eight-hour Beatles documentary, Get Back. I never wanted it to end. It was extraordinary.