memorial service
High life
As everyone who stands up when a lady enters the room knows, the once sacrosanct rules of civility throughout the…
Without a word of advice, Paul Methuen set me free
At the time he will barely have noticed me. In his mid-forties and (to me at 18) middle-aged, he was…
Long life
The Times has given way to the Daily Telegraph as the bastion of the established order, for— with the one…