Faced with the growing number of anti-French demonstrations in French-speaking Africa – in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and now Niger –…
Faced with the growing number of anti-French demonstrations in French-speaking Africa – in the Central African Republic, Mali, Burkina Faso, Senegal and now Niger –…
“The night of three by-elections gave just enough of a split decision for all sides to claim victory,” wrote Jonathan Freedland in the Guardian on…
Ten years ago exactly, in the summer of 2013 – when I was househunting in Sussex and had just published my book about the coming…
I was just talking to a friend about her travails with car insurers Aviva. Apparently, they told her – when she finally got through to…
“Rather than collecting taxes from the wealthy,” wrote the New York Times editorial board in a July 7 opinion piece, “the government is paying the…
When people meet, almost the first question is ‘What do you do? The answer establishes status and assists in deciding if there are common interests….
I remember a conversation which I had some time ago, which may actually just have been with myself, about the alliance that made up the…
There are those among us – me included – who so dislike technocracy and technocrats in general that we would probably opt for populism, almost…
For the past five Monday evenings, I’ve been spending some time in the pub: to be precise, the Angel on the Green pub on York’s…
Back in 1884, British law was like the new Ugandan law about homosexuality – it still rewarded proven sodomy with a death sentence. It had…
Thanks to the film Oppenheimer, by Christopher Nolan which comes out in July, we will all know the full story of how the USA went…