Childhood
Dyslexia is meaningless. But don't worry – so is ADHD
There is a beautiful symmetry to all things, I think, and probably related somehow to the concept of karma. Only…
A secret from my African childhood has become a deeper mystery
About 55 years ago, when I was about ten, my younger brother Roger and I discovered a slave pit in…
Finally, a celebrity memoir worth reading
Unlike many celebrity memoirs, Anjelica Huston’s is worth reading. In her Prologue she writes that as a child she modeled…
What Michael Gove should know about going to school in Singapore
I hated the rote-learning and savage competition at my schools. But I benefited from them, too
Long life: Polite silence on my old prep school’s possible paedophile
It is usually a mistake to return to places one has known as a child. I have only once been…
Bookends: Prep-school passions
In his introductory eulogy, Peter Parker calls In the Making: The Story of a Childhood (Penguin, £8.99) G. F. Green’s…
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‘So much for the parties’ tree-planting pledge.’
‘There’s 3.5 times surge pricing.’
‘Daddy, what did you tweet in the culture war?’
‘Alexa, do you remember the good old days?’