Just one year ago, President Putin took the heavy decision to go to war against his neighbor. Was Ukraine a threat to Russia’s existence, sovereignty…
Just one year ago, President Putin took the heavy decision to go to war against his neighbor. Was Ukraine a threat to Russia’s existence, sovereignty…
There is a line in James Graham’s play This House, about the Tory and L:abour whips offices from 1974 to 1979. Graham puts it into the mouth…
After the tour of Europe and Moscow by Wang Yi, the top Chinese diplomat, the Ukrainian president declared, in his press conference of February 24…
I have been writing a book about Robert Oppenheimer, the man who created the A-bob, only to fall foul of the McCarthyite atmosphere of 1954…
The case of Kate Forbes and her seemingly doomed pitch for the leadership of the Scottish National Party (SNP) is filling many column inches. Ben…
On their first media round following their announcement that they will be standing for the leadership of their party, a candidate announces that “gay marriage…
Professor Sir Chris Whitty, the government’s chief medical officer, must be thanking his lucky stars that he isn’t Anthony Fauci, his much-maligned equivalent in the USA,…
On Monday, February 7, two hours before dawn, a very powerful earthquake struck southern Turkey and northern Syria. Fortunately, the international rescue services rushed to…
Once again, the media are scaring homeowners with the prospect of falling house prices this spring. I was expecting house prices to fall similarly back…
i have been in conversation with a web robot…. James: Do you possess a sense of humour? Bot: As an artificial intelligence, I don’t experience…
It’s a commonplace to say now that the government got it all wrong when it tried to demonise strikes and strikers – that the public…
I joined the Liberal Party as a student journalist in 1979, immediately after Margaret Thatcher’s election victory. I did so partly because Dermot Roaf –…