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
View ArticleGood 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
View ArticleLet'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
View ArticleWhy 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'
View ArticleIf 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
View ArticleWords 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
View ArticleKing 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
View ArticleBenedict 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
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleFollow the journey of the three unwise men
"We three kings of Orient are? hoping for a mini-bar "
View ArticleChange looks possible for astrologers in 2016
The Government wishes to rationalise the horoscope. Psychics say that they saw this coming
View ArticleI 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
View ArticleSean 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?
View ArticleI'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
View ArticleThank 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.
View ArticleMust we get Kindles with our Amazon groceries?
Amazon does everything now. Everything. Click on it and it will come
View ArticleForgive 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?
View ArticleA 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
View ArticleChutney 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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