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PETER HITCHENS: The unlikely villain behind all those nannying warnings is finally revealed 

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My day is besieged with infuriating health and safety warnings. If I buy coffee at the station it says on the lid that the ‘Contents May be Hot’.  I should jolly well hope so, just as I was rather hoping that the biscuit I have bought ‘may contain nuts’, as its label solemnly informs me. … Read more

A stay at the Bond villain lair-style hotel Arakur Ushuaia Resort & Spa at the ‘end of the world’

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I landed in Ushuaia – the Patagonian port town nicknamed the ‘end of the world’ – and from the small airport, I taxied to my hotel. It was around 7am and as the morning fog cleared, my home for the next three days suddenly came into view.  Perched on a hill with a snow-crested peak … Read more