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A bookseller’s duty
To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…
Islam’s lost Enlightenment
I am quite used to people smirking into their sleeves when they hear that I’ve just written a book called…
Against Queen Camilla
How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…
Make way for Ubercare
There is much to be faulted in Uber, which has branched out from delivering people into delivering meals, under the…
Make way for Ubercare
There is much to be faulted in Uber, which has branched out from delivering people into delivering meals, under the…
The McMaster plan
When Lt Gen H.R. McMaster was appointed by Donald Trump to the post of national security adviser, newspaper reports hailed…
Brutish Britain
Life in Britain has become much cruder, meaner and more spiteful practically everywhere. It can be seen in people’s behaviour…
L’anti-Trump
If you believe the hype, Emmanuel Macron is l’anti-Trump. He is what the inter-national centre-left, reeling from the shocks of…
L’anti-Trump
If you believe the hype, Emmanuel Macron is l’anti-Trump. He is what the inter-national centre-left, reeling from the shocks of…
Let’s not dance
Why will people simply not believe you when you tell them that you don’t want to dance? Their reactions mimic…
Bad publicity
Whatever calamitous infelicities David Beckham did or did not email to his publicist, few will doubt that he has lived…
Gaslighting the nation
Arguably the cruellest thing you can do to human beings is to rob them of faith in their own sanity.…
Rodin at 100
The girl who posed for Auguste Rodin’s figure of Eve on the ‘Gates of Hell’ was, the sculptor said, a…
Corbyn’s blueprint
Twenty years ago Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world. Now it is one of the poorest.…
Mick Jagger’s lost memoir
Ask any publisher of popular non–fiction anywhere in the world which book they would most like to sign, and it…
Bye bye, Buller
RIP the Bullingdon Club, 1780–2017. It isn’t quite dead — but it is down to its last two members. That’s…
‘Isis? Bomb those suckers’
These are the last days of the ‘caliphate’. The place Isis made their capital, Raqqa, in Syria, is encircled and…
It’s all too personal
When I was little I owned a set of pencils that had my name engraved on them. I didn’t have…
Rodin at 100
The girl who posed for Auguste Rodin’s figure of Eve on the ‘Gates of Hell’ was, the sculptor said, a…
Bad publicity
Whatever calamitous infelicities David Beckham did or did not email to his publicist, few will doubt that he has lived…
Let’s not dance
Why will people simply not believe you when you tell them that you don’t want to dance? Their reactions mimic…
Corbyn’s blueprint
Twenty years ago Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world. Now it is one of the poorest.…
Mick Jagger’s lost memoir
Ask any publisher of popular non–fiction anywhere in the world which book they would most like to sign, and it…
Bye bye, Buller
RIP the Bullingdon Club, 1780–2017. It isn’t quite dead — but it is down to its last two members. That’s…
It’s all too personal
When I was little I owned a set of pencils that had my name engraved on them. I didn’t have…
