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Some people have complained to me that my comparison of Venice and Birmingham was marginally unfavourable to the English city. Regular reade...

When the prophet Mohammed died in 632, he left behind him not the warring tribes he’d found but an Arab nation bound together by a common re...

It isn’t often you get a glimpse of Camelot. But this week I got one again: Professor Alain Enthoven spoke to a workshop I attended in Surre...

If there’s one thing that gives me pleasure in my Jewish ancestry, it has to be the humour. Even when few other people had a good word to sa...

You can think what you like of the Tories, and I like to think plenty, but you have to hand it to them when it comes to marketing. They’re m...

There is much unfair cynicism about the great city of Birmingham, in the English West Midlands, second city of the country. A lot of prejudi...

‘By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion’ says the 137th Psalm. And later ‘How shall we sing the ...