Somerset
My P.G. Wodehouse summer
Normally I model myself on one of the more retiring of the Desert Fathers, as much as a man living…
A bittersweet tale
Can you imagine if, in the 20th century, wine producers in France had switched from a product made (almost) entirely…
Diary
Spring in Somerset — again. If someone had told me last February that I’d spend seven of the next 12…
Soho in Somerset
It is summer and the listless metropolitan thinks of grass. It cannot afford to stay at Durslade Farmhouse, Somerset, a…
The Hinkley Point disaster
Britain’s new nuclear plant has hardly left the drawing board, but it’s already a case study in what not to do
Funny things happen on the way to the Scillies
It’s a real skill, writing about a journey where nothing ever happens. We shouldn’t be surprised that Simon Armitage is…
Cider-making
The fabulous October weather is now just a memory but it made for a golden, old-fashioned apple day down in…
Gone with the wind turbine
City skylines are protected from careless building. Why should country views be different?
Diary
My surgery has been calling in all those over 75 for a special session with their doctor — a sort…
Cameron’s watershed moment
It is all hands to the pump in Downing Street. The entire No. 10 operation from the Prime Minister down…
‘Instant wildlife – just add water’
The ideology that created an unnatural disaster
Floods of incompetence
When Prince Charles arrived in Somerset to meet some of those caught up in the disaster which in five weeks…
