Carla Carlisle: 'Sometimes, repetition brings revelation'
Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.
Carla Carlisle — aka Lady Carla Cooper Carlisle — has been everything from a political activist and a teacher to a journalist, restaurateur and farmer. Originally from Mississippi, USA, she now lives in Norfolk.
Did we learn the lessons about Donald Trump from eight years ago? Probably not, says Carla Carlisle.
'There is beauty and there is poverty, order and corruption' — Carla Carlisle on Karen Blixen and Kenya.
Even as the problems of the world grow greater, Carla Carlisle commits to being an 'affirming flame' of hope.
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
Carla Carlisle shares her perspective on a war that truly feels Biblical.
Carla Carlisle on learning to slow down — and how little life might mean if we don't.
'It was like a Tarantino movie where the bad chase the bad,' says our columnist Carla Carlisle as events in Russia consume her attention.
Carla Carlisle pays tribute to the late Martin Amis, who died last month.
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.
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.
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'.
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...
Carla takes aim at the shamelessness of those who lead the country into disaster and stroll off without a word of apology.
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.
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.
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....
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.
An encounter with an eight-year-old diary brings Carla's past, present and future into focus.
When Carla Carlisle discovered that her path had crossed that of Sir Ernest Shackleton — albeit many years apart — it triggered a lifelong fascination with the explorer, his crew, his ship and his official photographer.
'I’m not naming names, but here’s what I’m sick and tired of: anarchy, serial dishonesty, sloth, high drama, bar-room brawls even when they are called work, dogma and off-the-hoof populism.'