Maud’s War

Peter Fleming (journalist, soldier, travel writer and brother of Ian) commissioned Jan Struther to write a regular column for The Times about “an ordinary sort of woman who leads an ordinary sort of life”.

RSVP

This will be short because I have to dash off to lunch at a livery company: The Worshipful Company of Ironmongers.

Shop Lifting

You will be aware the law keeps changing, and some innocent and lucrative pursuits, like insider trading and market manipulation, suddenly become illegal.

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Categorised as Shopping

Handicapped

One of my relations used to call me a purple-faced spastic when I was stupid or displeased him; usually the former. He wasn’t woke.

Common People

Reading the Channon diaries I have got to know Chips. Reading David Sedaris’s diaries I have become David Sedaris.

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Categorised as Literature

More than a Wet Bob

Here are ten things I didn’t know about Lord Desborough.

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Categorised as History