Incidentally, the term “Annus Horribilis” was first coined by the Matriarch herself, the much loved, now departed, Queen Elizabeth II, in 1992 to describe a year of unmitigated disaster for ...
If even the French are favouring beer over wine, we have to take stock, writes Rosamund Hall. Drinking trends, combined with hefty levies on alcohol, could be the tipping point ...
Can a year steer a middle course and straddle both the good and the bad, which will make our characterisation of it indeterminate? To some people, a year can maintain a balance in relation to ...
The past 12 months have been what the late Queen Elizabeth II — pained by her own memorably awful annus horribilis — might have called an annus incredibilis: a year of the incredible, the ...