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Three cheers for train wine

What if every train had a sommelier?

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Good manners aren't old hat: The simple rules to follow for correct headwear...

Country life is wrong about the decline of hat etiquette in modern Britain. It is stronger than ever

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Good manners aren't old hat: The simple rules to follow for correct headwear...

Country life is wrong about the decline of hat etiquette in modern Britain. It is stronger than ever

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Let's ban brunch and bring back the surly British breakfast

I'm fed up with the enforced, roaring jollity that goes on until lunchtime and into the early afternoon

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Why I am donating my wardrobe to the V and A...

Margaret Thatcher's clothes are apparently of huge sartorial significance. Well, so are my 'seven decades of corduroy'

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If Moses had issued government guidelines rather than commandments...

Everyone's telling us what to do nowadays, but with a hint of passive aggression. Thank goodness the great prophet didn't follow their lead

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Words can't express the happiness of an emoji

Oxford Dictionaries have declared an emoji to be the word of the year. You can't see, but I'm wearing a smiley face

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King Arthur wasn't the only publicity stunt being kicked around Glastonbury's...

The monks really wanted to host the Glastonbury Plainsong Festival in a nearby muddy field

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Benedict Cumberbatch's Father Christmas letter: Santa responds

The Sherlock actor has written a letter to Father Christmas pleading for the children. Here, St Nick responds

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The Nutcracker, may contain nuts: a Telegraph pantomime

It's been a year of fancy footwork on the world scene. To celebrate, Oliver Pritchett has devised a festive version of The Nutcracker featuring unusual stars playing the Great, the Good, the Very Very...

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Follow the journey of the three unwise men

"We three kings of Orient are? hoping for a mini-bar "

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Change looks possible for astrologers in 2016

The Government wishes to rationalise the horoscope. Psychics say that they saw this coming

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I fear the humble sausage could lead us to war

Michael McFeat, from Perthshire, has been arrested under Kyrgyzstan race-hate laws for his views on sausages. These food wars could spin out of control

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Sean Penn and El Chapo? Try Stanley and Livingstone

The Hollywood actor is not the first man to meet a criminal mastermind. Wasn't Dr Livingstone in search of a suspicious sounding source?

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I'll man the barricades if they ditch Pythagoras

Lily Allen is wrong about the value of Pythagoras: there is a special pleasure in coming across things we forgot we knew

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Thank you for all the thank yous!

As the season for giving thank you speeches reaches it climax, Oliver Pritchett wants to thank you - for everything.

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Must we get Kindles with our Amazon groceries?

Amazon does everything now. Everything. Click on it and it will come

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Forgive me father, I have doubts about the Sunday customer service

Now we are invited to shop on Sundays, who among us can deny they've been tempted to go to church instead?

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A bucket list? I'm too old for this sort of thing

Don't waste time climbing Everest. Go see the wonderful creatures hiding in Britain's landscape

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Chutney is the gift that goes on being given

No one eats it, no one likes it - yet we go on giving it away at Christmas. Why?

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