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Well, that’s a turn-up for the books: the Swiss have banned minarets. And by a big majority, too. More of a turn-down, really: don’t think t...

A couple of weekends ago I travelled out to Oman, to give a presentation to a small meeting on the fringe of a scarcely larger conference. I...

The British government is planning to ‘force’ banks to publish the number of their staff who earn more than a million pounds a year. The quo...

It’s curious how mental blocks work, isn’t it? I have a colleague called ‘Jon Astbury’. We work together, we get on fine, we talk most days,...

Talk about being in the right place at the right time! Peter Mandelson, the grandson of a former Labour Foreign Secretary, made two attempts...

In all the fuss a few years ago about sequencing the human genome there was, to my astonishment, no discussion of what has to be one of the ...

I’ve just returned to England from a short business trip abroad. It was odd returning to this country from somewhere with blue skies, hot su...