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Robert Hannigan, head of Britain’s GCHQ, the equivalent and partner of America’s NSA and therefore our principal snooping organisation, has...

There’s such power in Rudyard Kipling.  The characters in Kim , for instance, are unforgettable: the red-bearded giant of a Pathan horse ...

There ’s  story that has haunted me ever since I first heard it. Goro Shimura is in his eighties and an emeritus professor from Princeton...

There was a knock at the door an hour or two ago. “We are Milena and Robert,” the couple on the doorstep told us, “we are your new neighb...

“We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax,” said Sam Goldwyn, summing up his ideal vision of a f...

Ebola’s terrifying, isn’t it? Well, I think it is anyway. Not because there’s any serious chance I’ll ever catch it, far less die of i...

I know there are many people who regularly get up at 6:00 in the morning, and I have a great deal of admiration for them. For me, however, ...