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As war rages in Iran, it’s worth pausing to imagine a different kind of leadership. Smoke over Tehran following an Israeli attack on 13 June...

A few days before the New Year, Matilda and Elliott came to see us in our home in La Cañada, near Valencia.  Well, they brought their parent...

What a relief it was to have it confirmed by an exit poll last night that Labour, led by Keir Starmer, was on its way to a massive win over ...

If you think that football is the international game, think again. If you think it’s athletics, or chess, or tiddlywinks, well, you’re still...

It’s always good to have a laugh, isn’t it? Laughter’s the great natural therapy for humans, in the state technically known to psychiatrists...

Nothing Trump does surprises me anymore, but it’s still saddening to read that he’s now proposing a delay to the presidential elections. It...

In my previous post about the strange case of the Bill Gates conspiracy theory, I talked about those curious aspects of it that are, when a...

The very people who most complain about lying politicians, seem to be the most inclined to believe their lies. Trump’s supporters, in partic...

“ One of the things that makes novels less plausible than history, I find,” says a character in Tom Stoppard’s play Night and Day , “is th...