There was a time when Britain was a serious country. But judging by the plans for our new British banknotes,…
If you ran a restaurant where the cooker didn’t work, the manager rarely appeared and every suggestion for improvement was…
There was a time when a car’s relationship with its driver was pleasingly straightforward. You bought it, put fuel in…
There are moments in human history when you can feel civilisation advancing. The invention of the wheel was probably one.…
There was a conker tree at school which, as far as I was concerned, was in charge of the calendar.…
There are two things which have occupied an unreasonable amount of my adult life: pianos and cars. One is an…
There is a particular sort of musician who spends a large part of life waiting for somebody else to breathe.…
I trained as a classical pianist. Properly trained, in the traditional sense. Scales, arpeggios, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert, the usual…
Britain has an extraordinary collection of pipe organs. They are everywhere. They lurk behind carved cases in parish churches, dominate…
For several hundred years, if you wanted to get married properly in Britain, there was a fairly obvious place to…