The power of print and ‘pressing pause’
When my grandfather died in August, he was holding my hand. In the other, he had a notebook. His gentle, sloping scrawl filled the pages with handwriting as familiar to me as my own.
When my grandfather died in August, he was holding my hand. In the other, he had a notebook. His gentle, sloping scrawl filled the pages with handwriting as familiar to me as my own.
It is somewhat astonishing to discover from this autobiography that JD Vance, the vice president of the United State of America, and arguably the second most powerful man in the world, has been a politician for just three and a half years
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One Wednesday lunchtime a few weeks ago a 78-year-old man walked into reception at the Catholic Diocesan Centre on Wakefield Street.
For readers of a different demographic, Harry Styles is a 32-year-old English singer and a former member of the hugely successful boy band One Direction.
After more than 180 editorials over the past 17 years, this will be my last.
During a recent visit to Loxton, my friend Alison was clearing out her house in readiness for sale. It was the house that I once shared with her and the young man who was to become her husband when we were in our early 20s. At the time I was working as a cadet journalist at The Loxton News.
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