There are developments on the Barons Court retail scene. The Four Vintners off-licence that went into receivership last year is to re-open as a branch of Oddbins.
Alexander Chancellor and I have been together a long time; in fact since 1975. I was a student at Durham and a reader of The Spectator, he was the new editor.
Hear ye, hear ye, all the news from Annecy! Actually there isn’t any today. It has been overcast with cloud hanging over the mountains and my mood seems to sync with the weather.
There is a lane at Barmeath called the Headless Horseman because, according to legend, a horse bolted back from the Battle of the Boyne with its decapitated rider still on board.
In October last year I quoted extracts from a journal I wrote when I was in Afghanistan in 2008, Two Nights in Kunduz. The BBC report that Kunduz has fallen to the Taliban.
The Basilica of Notre-Dame de Fourvière is late 19th century and is perched above Lyon. It is a bit of a climb but was worth it for me as there was an unexpected bonus.
Three months after the EU referendum we are having the sort of detailed debate we should have had three months before the referendum. It comes as no surprise that Nissan’s continued investment in the UK is at jeopardy. Let’s look at the numbers.