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Latest articles from Chris Koenig

One man's private paradise

Chris Koenig pays a visit to Daylesford House, the result of one man’s determination to reclaim his family seat

Bread from Poland with love

Some of us are old enough to remember visiting Communist countries in eastern Europe before Perestroika in 1989 — the unsmiling service, bread queues, the feeling that as a 'the customer you were always wrong.'

Deadly dramas prove popular

Chris Koenig discovers how a murder mystery production company is providing plenty of work for ‘resting’ actors

Arms and the Man

Find out what you enjoy doing. Learn how to do it well. Then persuade the world at large to pay you for doing it.

The next generation

Do people invest in energy saving devices, such as solar panels, to save themselves money in the long run, or are they primarily motivated by 'doing the right thing' by the planet and by future generations?

Crumbling church could be restored

HOPES are rising that a Grade I-listed Victorian church on the boundary between West Oxfordshire and Gloucestershire will be brought back to life.

Wits of local historians being sharpened

The old saying, muttered by many a member of the older generation during the middle part of last century, was that “civilisation ended in 1914”: so great were the social changes the Great War wrought.

Gearing up for the centenary

In distant corners of the planet, and also right here in Oxfordshire, there are war graves: resting places of Commonwealth people killed in action in the two world wars of the last century.