I can’t possibly reveal which duke had an ashtray shaped like a penis in his library

What’s the must-have item in a library? Books, you may think, but Jacob Rees-Mogg was recently photographed in the library of his 17th-century Somerset house and there…

Dolly: The Sheep That Changed the World, review – an ode to British ingenuity and one unoriginal sheep

Karen Walker was in her hotel room after a wedding when a fax came through announcing a birth. “She has a white face and furry legs. Both…

There’s a fluffy white menace that’s spoiling Britain’s national parks

But in the UK I failed to notice the pesky things, partly because they have always been there and partly because our culture – from Countryfile to…