Charles Spencer

Walking on air

For many years now I have maintained that, if I am ever sacked from the Daily Telegraph, I will become a minicab driver, an assertion usually met by jeers and sneers of derision.

issue 16 January 2010

Minicab drivers have a bad reputation for being dishonest incompetents and worse — a current poster campaign suggests that if a woman gets into an unlicensed cab she has only herself to blame if she gets raped — but down here in suburban Surrey they couldn’t be more helpful or reliable as I have had recent cause to find out.

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