New York   This is a good time to be in Manhattan, the weather’s perfect, the park and foliage still…

New York Back in the Big Bagel once again preparing for the greatest debate ever, one that will decide the…

Although my birthday was in August, I chose the rather melancholy autumnal moment of September to celebrate it — mourn…

Sicily   Under the watchful eye of Mount Etna the storied past of the island lies parched and yellowish, but…

I’m jittery and fragile but free of plaster and in the dojo, slowly turning lean and muscular. Never listen to…

I have a question for you, dear readers: is it me, or is there no newspaper or network in America…

Just about this time of year, 42 years ago, Dunhill’s of London, the famed tobacconist, had a bold idea. Its…

OK sports fans, the Games are over, Uncle Sam and Britain hit pay dirt, and the prettiest girl of the…

An item in an American newspaper had me thinking of my father all last week. Old dad died 27 years…

Gstaad   ‘He flies through the air with the greatest of ease, that daring young man on the flying trapeze.’…

Gstaad   What is it with these baldies? I turned on the television last week and watched as the identical…

Rosa Monckton is married to my old editor Dominic Lawson and they have two girls. Rosa was a close friend…