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  • 1 week ago | thetimes.com | John Sturgis

  • 2 weeks ago | spectator.co.uk | John Sturgis

    They already had four children, four cats, four dogs, a number of horses and a pet pig called Philip. But for Alan and Judith Kilshaw, this wasn’t enough. When IVF failed, they decided to try to adopt another child. What happened next would lead to them being pursued by the FBI, as well as a media frenzy, a fraught transcontinental legal dispute and international notoriety.

  • 1 month ago | yahoo.com | John Sturgis

    It’s 25 years this month since I first visited the Cherry Tree in Southgate, north London. In May 2000, my wife and I viewed a number of nearby houses and we headed there afterwards for drinks while we discussed what we’d just seen. Discussions were fruitful: we settled on one, an Edwardian terrace in nearby Palmers Green. We lived there for 17 years before relocating even closer to the Cherry Tree, which, as a result, for the past eight years has been my local.

  • 1 month ago | telegraph.co.uk | John Sturgis

    But there are wrong notes, quite a few wrong notes: a cocktail, supposedly a strawberry daiquiri, is so jammy with so little zing that it feels like it has been poured from a can, and inexplicably comes with an orange slice which has been dried as if for potpourri; a glass of rosé comes at room temperature; a mixed seafood platter is all squid and no scallop, padded out with padron peppers. Overall though, it's honestly not bad. But neither is it good.

  • 1 month ago | spectator.co.uk | John Sturgis

    It was conceived as a ‘people’s palace’ – and, as it turns 150 this week, Alexandra Palace continues to fulfil this brief admirably. There is something for everyone, and it’s not too sniffy about who ‘everyone’ describes. Hence the annual mayhem around the winter darts tournament, when everywhere between Muswell Hill and Wood Green is crawling with groups of very drunk men dressed as Smurfs, monks or the cast of Scooby Doo. The Royal Opera House this isn’t.

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