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Monday, 19 December 2011
Wren's Great Model of St Paul's
Ever since studying the English Baroque at university I have wanted to see Wren’s Great Model of St Paul’s. It is not the model of the cathe...
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Are judges out of touch?
I went to a charity dinner recently in the Great Hall of Lincoln's Inn - a magnificent Victorian paeon to the medieval gothic. The Inns ...
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Exhibition Road - a triumph
For the last two years Exhibition Road, which runs from South Kensington up to Kensington Gore and Hyde Park, has been a chicane of workmen...
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Tuesday, 6 December 2011
Thank you
Only in England. I overheard my own conversation with the ticket collector on a train this morning – an entire dialogue, making complete sen...
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Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Financial Advice
Anyone who has opened a bank account, or done anything that is vaguely financial, will dread doing it again. Aside from the money-laundering...
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Sunday, 27 November 2011
Electronic Books
Is the printed book's six hundred year technological reign - surely one of the greatest ever, about to come to an end? Is it now all Ki...
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The Louvre
How could I have got to fifty odd, have been to Paris many times and never visited the Louvre? Pas possible! Queues snaking round the pyrami...
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