Robert Crampton

Swindon

Journalist at The Times

Not the real one. Set up in honour of The Voice of the Common Man (the most important read in the Times each Saturday).

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My kitten has to be neutered and neither of us is happy about it

1 week ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton

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Men, here's what I've learnt about women by working with them

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton
Ben Shephard's got ripped at 50. At 46 I almost managed it too

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton
I've met the Vardys

2 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton
I know the true meaning of high-level stress

3 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton
Watching our two new kittens play is like falling in love

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton

The massive news in my family is we have two new kittens. Our beloved cat Tiger, you will recall, departed this life last January. That left his pal Lucky, now 17. We were going to leave it until Lucky also shuffled off before drafting in the replacements, but we got tired of waiting for her to die. My daughter, Rachel, did the research and one Friday she and her brother, Sam, their mother, Nicola, and Lewis, Rachel’s boyfriend, drove over to Shepherd’s Bush to take delivery.
‘It’s harder to be funny about politics’ - Carl Hiaasen on Trump’s America

4 weeks ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton

I’ve been reading Carl Hiaasen novels for more than 30 years. I’ve even read his selected columns for the Miami Herald, where he worked for almost 50 years, so I was excited to meet him, albeit via Zoom from Florida, the state he has done so much to celebrate and satirise. He’s a youthful 72, with something of the professor about him, but a cool professor, not a mad professor, or a nerd professor.
Being a ‘mummy’s boy’ helped to make me the person that I am today

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton

Academics at the University of Edinburgh and King’s College London have surveyed the research into the effects on children of maternal affection, or lack thereof. Having recorded mothers talking about their kids aged five, and then aged ten, and then observed those same children aged 18, the conclusion is that more affectionate mothers produce more agreeable, conscientious and confident adults. These personality traits, furthermore, are linked to greater career success later in life.
Can I handle a Gen Z skincare regime at the age of 60?

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton
Boris and Carrie could just have said no to dressing as dinosaurs

1 month ago | thetimes.com | Robert Crampton