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What with this sunny weather and not being at NigeCorp HQ today, I was out of the house like a shot and down to Ashtead Common to see if the...

As the NHS - still regarded by more than half the population as 'the envy of the world' - approaches its 60th birthday, and Lord Dar...

Since it is Sunday, here's a word you don't often hear these days - supererogation . It sprang back into my mind, after a long and...

Less than a week ago, freshly returned from a spell of blissful newslessness in France, I suggested we might all be happier for not follo...

Happy birthday, Lafcadio Hearn , born on this day in 1850. His was surely one of the most extraordinary careers in literature. A lovely isla...

I don't know about you, but I always relish stories like this - and, happily, they're surprisingly common. I love the fact that th...

This is, of course, good news - but what's striking about it is how dangerous the roads were in 1926, when car ownership was a luxury l...