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February 19, 2013

Hilary Mantel for President!

This Monday, in my column in the Independent- which you can read online and is reproduced on my website with some additions- I asked why if […]

February 19, 2013

Why Not a Palace Tax Too?

Last week Ed Milliband audaciously promised a mansion tax on homes worth over two million pounds and was rightly praised. In the end though, he […]

February 11, 2013

Lazy Blogger

So I made myself a promise- come 2013, I would blog lots, try at least and catch up with all those ceaseless, tireless tweeters and sleepless […]

February 11, 2013

Euthanizing The National Health Service

Euthanizing the NHS Yasmin Alibhai-Brown Listeners welled up when the Labour MP Ann Clwyd described on BBC Radio4 how her beloved husband, Owen Roberts, had […]

January 23, 2013

Through the Western Glass Darkly

Published in the Independent, 21/1/ 2013 The desert siege in the In Amenas gas plant is over. The end, as foretold, was bloody. According to the […]

December 22, 2012

Fish and Brain

Fish, my mum always said, made Bengalis the cleverest people on earth. When school exams started , she cooked fish every day. Cod liver oil was […]

December 22, 2012

A lidl venison

Sorry have been away so long- exhausted, wintered out, time and all that. But here we are. We went, like all greedy and good middle class […]

December 22, 2012

Red to Start With

I had fourteen people to dinner on Friday and am still cleaning up, leaving my lovely man to wash fifty glasses (being a perfectionist, he won’t […]

December 21, 2012

Tale of Two Nations

The Olympic flame is on its way to fantabulous London and the Queen’s Jubilee should get us all jiving in parks and eating lots of iced […]