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Before wishing everyone much pleasure and success in 2013, and in the midst of all the retrospectives for the end of the current year, I wa...

If I ever decided to pick a particularly inglorious day from within the span of my lifetime (not a pastime I’m inclined to indulge at all o...

Christmas has always been a season for families, and it was great to have a visit from our youngest son, Nicky, and our daughter-out-law, N...

Hope springs eternal in the human breast, Alexander Pope told us. The Romans put it even more succinctly: dum spiro spero , while I breathe...

It’s wonderful how moments of high drama steal up on you, catching you unawares, springing out when you least expect them and overwhelming ...

Much of the debate since the Newtown shootings, as after every other such tragic incident in the States, has focused on the Second Amendment...

Cast your minds back a century and imagine how different the world looked.  It still seemed, particularly to people living there, that Br...