In the time of cholera, which – despite Gabriel Garcia Marquez – I take to be the 1830s, there were riots in the back streets…
In the time of cholera, which – despite Gabriel Garcia Marquez – I take to be the 1830s, there were riots in the back streets…
I am a university lecturer; I feel lucky and I really love my job. I run an interdisciplinary degree for mature students, returning to study,…
Which example would you nominate for Tickbox of the Year – what I called in the Evening Standard yesterday, examples of “the stupidification and hollowing…
Europe’s borders are under attack. On Sunday 1 March, young bearded men shouting “Allah Akbar! “, carrying a tree trunk as a ram, tried to…
“It’s not fair!” This is one of the most common utterances to come out of young children’s mouths. A sense of fairness seems somehow ingrained…
I have an unproven and probably unprovable theory about new movements – political or otherwise – which is that they usually involve reaching back into…
It’s a pretty disconnected world. That is how an impartial observer could have summed up the spectacle of the Munich Security Conference, held on 15…
Listen for it….listen for it = and there it is. Another Labour MP/sad former Labour MP/Labour activist/outrider cum Grauniad rent-a-hack bemoaning the general election defeat…
Some of the stuff Trump has done in the Middle East is shameful – “The deal of the century” – for Israel, abandonment of the…
It has only been a fortnight since the publication of my Tickbox book, but the trickle of background information that was beginning to emerge when…
Benyamin Netanyahu’s visit to his American ally on 27 and 28 January 2020 brings with it a great paradox. In seventy-two years of history, never…