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Robert Wright
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Newsroom reporter at the Financial Times, clergy spouse, rider of bicycles.

"I just wanted to see something new every day and tell a story with it": Gus Haynes.
Reposted by Robert Wright
November 27, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In so many areas...
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 PM
This is my son being sworn in (a decade ago) as a "junior park ranger" of the Rocky Mountain National Park. On that trip, we visited three US national parks. Those fees might have stopped us.
November 26, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I'd contribute to this discussion. But then I might have to face up to how I feel about this issue. And who wants to do a thing like that?
November 26, 2025 at 10:59 AM
I've thought of one bright side.
It took for a while to serving me transport nostalgia stuff in Hungarian. I wouldn't have understood that when I was 14, so that's some kind of very limited growth.
That said, even I am not that interested in precisely what kind of tram they're using in Szeged.
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 PM
It’s brutal. I’ve spent 30 years trying to become an urban sophisticate and it just tears off the mask to reveal the 14-year-old hiding underneath, at the end of the platform, notebook in hand.
November 25, 2025 at 12:10 PM
You’re not being shown “U.K. rail identification” stuff, are you? I am shamefully ready to try to work out which railway station is in a picture.
November 25, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Kenneth Clarke MP was 29 in 1969. It’s not impossible he’d have made a landmark TV series broadcast in 1969. But it’s unlikely (and, of course, he didn’t).
November 25, 2025 at 8:35 AM
Of course, the art historian’s son was a Conservative politician. I suppose that possibly contributes to the confusion.
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 AM
I’ve just looked up the Civilisation reference. The worry is less that she made the error than that no one spotted it. It’s only one of the most famous TV documentary series ever.
November 25, 2025 at 8:23 AM
It has definitely struck me that anyone less au fait with technology might struggle.
November 24, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Precisely, I'm persistently slightly mystified at people's frustration over getting GP appointments. If I'm worried about something, I send them a message and frequently find myself talking to someone within hours.
November 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I'm still keen to be in touch.
November 24, 2025 at 9:52 AM
My late mother, incidentally, started on inheritance tax planning after she saw the Duke of Hamilton's heirs had paid none thanks to effective tax planning. She said, essentially, that if they hadn't paid she'd be damned if we would.
We didn't pay any, but I don't think any of the planning helped.
November 24, 2025 at 9:17 AM