Excellent news. If only Tom Paulin and Bonnie Greer could also be brought back into action. x.com/GuardianBooks/…

I bought it because my phone had lost battery and I had to make a decision

When you send a text to your wife about buying a swimsuit for your daughter and you press "tweet" by mistake x.com/ThomasGrant15/…

Thanks - in despair I went to Lillywhites of Piccadilly - daughter iffy but accepting x.com/Maggotlaw/stat…

Has any party been more mythologised than Capote's Black & White Ball? The feast of Trimalchio? x.com/MichelsJoost/s…

I wonder if Farrow consciously adopted the gamine look of Seberg? I do not think she ever attained the upper slopes of chic Seberg reached x.com/LustForLanguag…

1/2 Currently writing about trial of Dr Martelli on spying charges - the sensation of July 1963 at high point of cold war; now forgotten.

2/2 evidence of hollowed-out shoe heels; false cigarette packets with one-time pads secreted; meetings with Soviet handlers in parks

and just in the historical moment between film of Dr No and publication of Spy Who Came in From the Cold. He was acquittted

The paraphernalia of a French civil wedding in Provence last week - image of the President required for its validity

Seen last week in a French museum of contemporary sculpture....

And a recent iteration of the flowerpot theme...

And these perforated figures are apparently to be seen emptying themselves across France

My article in the Times today

Especially if you are a chancery lawyer this is a brilliant tweet x.com/BarbaraRich_la…

you are right Fabian. There was a campaign about it in the 1970s x.com/fkrougman/stat…

Working in the Alps with my cuttings from 1963

Indeed. A forgotten classic x.com/fkrougman/stat…

In Somerset waiting for my friend Peter to bring me a Campari

Super photo. A friend of mine - a former diplomat - told me last week that he had once danced barefoot with Bridget Bardot in St Tropez.... x.com/LustForLanguag…