London
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Cycling from London to Wales and back – in a day
It’s a long way, cycling from London to Wales. Especially if you go via Tewkesbury, where…
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‘Don’t tell him, Pike!’ Remembering Ian Lavender from Dad’s Army
Note: I published this blogpost a year ago, but accidentally unpublished it a couple of months…
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Cycling into 2023
It’s traditional for me to mark the end of a year by reflecting on the year’s…
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The Brompton: engineering for change – for life
I love my Brompton Electric bike, as I explained in this blogpost in 2019. So I…
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The day the IRA bombed my office
Walking around the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich on Saturday, I was transported back in time…
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HS2: broken Tory promises
What a surprise. After countless promises to build a high speed rail line to Yorkshire, Boris…
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The day I met Michael Heseltine
It was a tumultuous time in British politics. Prime minister John Major had just resigned as…
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London calling: to St Paul’s
It was an odd feeling, stepping onto a London train for the first time in 19…
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Fifty years on: converting to North Sea gas
Back to the Seventies. That has been a theme of the past few weeks as a…
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In praise of Terence Conran
I was a big fan of Habitat in my twenties and thirties. I loved the clean…