It’s in the Post

I have written a cheque this morning – my first this year – worthy of a cuckoo letter to The Times?

Meet the Pallisers

I saw The Rocky Horror Show at a theatre in the King’s Road (possibly The Royal Court) in the 1970s and was taken by surprise when the audience were mostly in costume and participated in the show – I remember lots of rice being chucked in a wedding scene.

Safer Gambling

Yesterday I made a short-term investment with Paddy Power. Why is a turf accountant called after two popular brands of Irish whiskey, doh!

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Twelve Responses to Tragedy

If the Yalta conference features at all in our collective consciousness it is as the photograph of the Allied leaders taken by Robert Hopkins, son of Harry Hopkins.

The Rutland Gate Mystery

“At about three in the morning of Thursday 3 May, a police constable was on routine night patrol in West London. His beat took him through the small triangle of South Kensington that lies like a wedge between Hyde Park and Knightsbridge.

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You Know Who

As a child I don’t think I counted my blessings; I did curse curse my afflictions, like wet Sunday afternoons at prep school.

Stone Soup

Recently I recommended a detective novel written by AA Milne, especially as it’s not his genre.