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Carla Carlisle: We've diversified, modernised and compromise — but now we're farming at a loss again for the first time since the 'Great Betrayal'
Carla Carlisle laments what has become of Wyken Farm — and worries how much worse it may yet get.
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'It may be vain to think that the past was a cleaner, quieter and kinder place, but it felt pretty decent when you knew your GP and your GP knew you, and milk in glass bottles was delivered every morning'
Carla Carlisle is homesick for the olden days, when we didn’t know we had it so good.
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To Oliver Walston: A visionary, a farmer and a friend
Carla Carlisle writes of her friend Oliver Walston, who was often known for 'thinking the unthinkable and saying the unsayable' in the agricultural world of East Anglia.
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Carla Carlisle: If Jeremy Clarkson was on the ballot, he'd win the farming vote easily
Our columnist from across the pond reflects on the turbulent state of politics, and retains hope for a more predictable future.
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'By the time I wanted to know about the war that had swept over the world and redefined lives, I’d left it too late for first-hand accounts'
Carla Carlisle reflects on the 80th anniversary of D-Day and its legacy of gratitude and awe.
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Carla Carlisle: The Nanny State isn't to be feared — it can fix pretty anything from the NHS to the Post Office
Put your worries aside and join Carla Carlisle on a journey in to common sense.
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Carla Carlisle: 'Sometimes, repetition brings revelation'
Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.
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'From the first page until the last, I was in another country, another world... It was like falling in love'
'There is beauty and there is poverty, order and corruption' — Carla Carlisle on Karen Blixen and Kenya.
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Carla Carlisle: Trying to believe that people will step back from war, elect an honest man
Even as the problems of the world grow greater, Carla Carlisle commits to being an 'affirming flame' of hope.
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Carla Carlisle: 'Seamus Heaney deserves a sainthood, as well as his Nobel Prize'
Carla Carlisle applauds The Letters of Seamus Heaney and shares how she couldn't wait until Christmas to devour the collection from the late Irish poet
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Carla Carlisle: 'What we are witnessing began in 1900BC with Abraham’s journey from Ur to Canaan'
Carla Carlisle shares her perspective on a war that truly feels Biblical.
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Carla Carlisle: It's taken me years, but I finally understand my father's dying gift to me
Carla Carlisle on learning to slow down — and how little life might mean if we don't.
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Carla Carlisle: 'You don’t need a map to tell you that East Anglia and Russia are closer than they look'
'It was like a Tarantino movie where the bad chase the bad,' says our columnist Carla Carlisle as events in Russia consume her attention.
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Carla Carlisle on Martin Amis: The 'passionate, graceful, fierce' writer who scared us, challenged us, and brought us understanding
Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the late Martin Amis, who died last month.
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Carla Carlisle: 'I think I sound as English as Judi Dench, but strangers still ask “where are you from?"'
Our columnist Carla Carlisle bumps in to a milestone in her life, prompting her to take a look at the nation of her birth — but her chief emotion isn't homesickness.
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Carla Carlisle: Thirty years ago, our farm was on life support. It now thrives — and has 45 people on the payroll
Jeremy Clarkson's travails in farming are as well documented — by himself, in his television series — as they are turbulent. But having embarked on a similar journey herself a generation ago, our columnist Carla Carlisle has words of encouragement.
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Carla Carlisle: 'What do the Sussexes want? How does this saga end?'
Our US-born, Norfolk-based columnist Carla Carlisle was only too happy to welcome Meghan Markle into the sisterhood of American women married to Englishmen. How things have changed since that 'hopeful and happy time'.
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Carla Carlisle: 'Edit your one and precious life. Prepare for Judgement Day. Do it Now.'
Carla has been having a bit of a New Year clear-out — albeit one which started last August, and which is NOT going particularly well...
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Carla Carlisle: Love doesn't mean never saying sorry — it means saying you’re sorry with some frequency
Carla takes aim at the shamelessness of those who lead the country into disaster and stroll off without a word of apology.
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Carla Carlisle: Why I'm swapping houses with my son and his wife
It's time for the younger generation to take on the Big House while they have the energy, imagination and finances to do it, says Carla Carlisle.
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Carla Carlisle: Wallis Simpson's great gift to Britain? Swapping vain, impulsive Edward for the patience, steadiness and kindliness of George and Elizabeth
Carla Carlisle may be a free-born American, but she doffs her cap to the late Queen, the new King, and how Britain's centuries-old balancing act can trump the whims of political mood in a republic.
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Carla Carlisle: The day I rescued The Queen
Carla Carlisle's friends and family back in America are convinced she's on personal terms with Her Majesty. She isn't — but there was that one time....
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Carla Carlisle: 'Nixon had a conscience. He experienced shame. I doubt if Trump does'
Carla Carlisle was a fledgling journalist when a piece of Watergate history came her way. Half a century later, she considers the parallels between Richard Nixon and Donald Trump.
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Carla Carlisle: My husband sees Zelensky as wise, passionate and a powerful force for historic change. I look at the blue-and-yellow bunting and wonder how many landmines the £1,200 we've raised will remove
An encounter with an eight-year-old diary brings Carla's past, present and future into focus.
