Simon Schama: 'I'm the inevitable old codger on the dancefloor'

The historian talks about self-doubt, showing off, his Jewish heritage ? and cheating death in a helicopterYour book of essays, Scribble, Scribble, Scribble, dwells on subjects from how to make a souffle to the "cowboy pieties" of George W Bush. In one sense you might say it's a testament to never saying no to a commission?I fear so. I do say no from time to time, but not half often enough. I