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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...

When we last saw our gutsy Spanish Republican fighters in the French Foreign Legion, they were rather twiddling their thumbs in North Afri...

All Saints Day. The day after Halloween. You could tell here in Madrid, if only because some of the people we saw had clearly not finished c...

Twelve score and three years ago, the fathers of our cousins across the Atlantic, brought forth on their continent a new nation, conceived i...

Best wishes to all my American friends, this fourth of July. I say that with complete sincerity, even though I’m British, and the celebrat...

Do you know David Low's cartoons? Low was a New Zealander who spent most of his working life in Britain. There he developed a style of...

Every now and then a conference – and I’m at one now – is enlivened by masterful presentation, brimming with insights on vital matters, the ...

I never thought I’d write these words, but I feel a little wry admiration for Donald Trump right now. Even more amazing, that admiration i...

It was with some pride that I realised, in my thirties, that I remembered events in my life that had happened twenty years earlier, even tho...

Ken Loach is a great film maker. I could perhaps have done without the hackneyed story line of The Wind that Shook the Barley , but The Navi...

How appropriate it is that ‘post-truth’ has been selected by the Oxford Dictionaries as the new word of the year . It doesn’t refer to wha...