In Washington, Success Is Just A Training

Americans Are Fascinated By Their Own Love Of Shopping. This Does Not Make Them Unique. It's Just That They Have More To Buy Than Most Other People On The Planet. And It's Also An Affirmation Of Faith In Their Country.

I Think The Great Thing About Grandparents Is Seeing Another Home, Realising That People You Love Can Have Different Priorities, Different Diversions, Different Opinions And Lead Quite Different Lives From The Ones You See Every Day, And That Is Immensely Valuable.

Disney World Has Acquired By Now Something Of The Air Of A National Shrine. American Parents Who Don't Take Their Children There Sense Obscurely That They Have Failed In Some Fundamental Way, Like Muslims Who Never Made It To Mecca.

When You Visit A Foreign City You Are In It, But Not Of It, Separated By A Glass Wall. Once, While A Student, I Was Getting Dressed In My Ground-floor Room When A Family Of Italians Crossed The Grass To Watch, As If I Were Laid On For Their Amusement And Instruction.

Corney & Barrow Are Proud To Have The Royal Warrant, Meaning That They Provide The Palace With Some Of The Greatest - And Necessarily Most Expensive - Wines From Around The World. I Am Pleased To Say That They Also Hold My Own Warrant, For Providing Exceptional Wines At - Surprisingly - Modest Prices.