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Train travel, as I’ve said before , is an excellent way of getting round Britain: fast, comfortable and these days surprisingly reliable.  ...

So here we are at Easter again.  It always amuses me to see the attitude of our Western allegedly Christian societies to this, in princip...

As Niels Bohr said, predictions are very difficult, especially about the future. With that excellent warning in mind, I generally try t...

Back in the 1990s, the rising star in the Conservative Party was Michael Portillo. The darling of the right, he shone in the Thatcher firmam...

There was a documentary on the BBC earlier today which promised to explore how it felt to be an Ancient Egyptian. I didn’t watch it, so I d...

When Gordon Brown was Chancellor of the Exchequer, the standard joke was that the woman in his life was called Prudence, since he called on ...

So here we are at the tenth anniversary of the start of the Iraq invasion. It’s an action still vehemently justified by Tony Blair, who bea...