“Everything about the sun-soaked Canary Islands, which were added to the UK’s travel corridor list in late October, always seems to feel bigger and brighter. I’ve paid the Spanish islands a visit at least once a year since I was a teenager, and the enormity of the place always strikes …
“During the recent heatwave, BBC London visited Southend. In 30-plus-degree heat, the reporter stood at Jubilee Beach and spoke of a lack of social distancing as a ribbon of broiling bodies stretched away behind her. They seemed to occupy every single shingle and, frankly, the coverage almost put me off …
When I lost my mum, back in 2016, I was at a total loss. Some 20 years earlier I had lost my dad, and I had become used to the constant ache of his absense. But this was something new, something far more painful. After the pain of the funeral, …
“The windscreen is wall-to-wall blue, my bonnet pointing up so vertically it feels like the car could tip backwards at any moment and send me tumbling. I push my foot down harder on the accelerator and feel the lurch of the engine kicking in, propelling me upwards, seemingly into the …
