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James Palmer

London

Associate Editor at The Sunday Times

Associate Editor at The Sunday Times Magazine

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  • 2 months ago | thetimes.com | James Palmer

  • Oct 12, 2024 | thetimes.com | Ellen Himelfarb |James Palmer

    The last time I came through Cancun airport it was 2006. I was with my girlfriend, Mary, and I had an engagement ring hidden in a sock in my rucksack. Going through customs I was, inevitably, singled out for a bag search. As an official with a baton dangled the sock inquisitively, I pleaded with him not to make me get down on one knee there and then. Fortunately, he laughed; Mary didn’t notice and we were on our way.

  • Aug 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | James Palmer

    This article was first published on July 7, 2024In a former bus depot in Birmingham decked out with half-pipes and bowls, I’m holding hands with Andy Macdonald, Team GB’s 51-year-old skateboarding contender and the oldest competitor in the sport’s very short Olympic history. A father of three from San Diego (whose father was born in Luton), “Andy Mac” believes he can turn me, a 48-year-old father of two with dodgy knees, into a “rad dad” like him.

  • Jul 6, 2024 | thetimes.com | James Palmer

    In a former bus depot in Birmingham decked out with half-pipes and bowls, I’m holding hands with Andy Macdonald, Team GB’s 50-year-old skateboarding contender and the oldest competitor in the sport’s very short Olympic history. A father of three from San Diego (whose father was born in Luton), “Andy Mac” believes he can turn me, a 48-year-old father of two with dodgy knees, into a “rad dad” like him.

  • Mar 16, 2024 | thetimes.co.uk | James Palmer

    ‘Phones off, look out the window, kids.” We’re on a train hurtling across Sweden, frozen inlets and icing-sugar forests whipping past us, and my teens are eyes down, plugged in. Screens are bad. Screens will be the end of us. But screens, I have to remind myself, can be good too — they are what inspired us to come here.

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James Palmer
James Palmer @DuffPalm
23 Feb 25

Loved chatting to the Koleoso brothers of the @EzraCollective for today’s Relative Values, inspiring family from Enfield making some joyful music https://t.co/mqhAqVFqyx

James Palmer
James Palmer @DuffPalm
7 Aug 24

Good luck to @andymacdonald (51) in the Skateboarding today and thanks for my lesson in Birmingham last month! #TeamGB https://t.co/Jne0POD1Nc

James Palmer
James Palmer @DuffPalm
13 Jul 23

#racetowimbledon #promotion I took my son to @wimbledon and he beat ‘Andy’s time’ on a Fortnite game! 4:28 . Now we’re in a prize draw for next year’s final. Misspent youth? https://t.co/L04gnqDpbL