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We’re doing lots of things for the last time these days. Our last dinner in our favourite curry restaurant, Punjabi Haveli, in the predomi...

Normally, I wouldn’t bother to write about a mediocre book, but this is a rather special mediocre book. Not much of a spy novel... It’s...

The departure of seven MPs from the Labour Party is not the most significant political news of the last few days. That was a poll publishe...

Molière, France’s best known comic playwright, died on  17 February 345 years ago.  Just a few hours earlier, he had been on stage, playin...

It’s slightly embarrassing to watch a man not gifted with great wit trying to be clever. How much worse it is when he tries to be devious… ...

Donald Tusk, President of the EU Council, wondered this week about the ‘special place in hell … for those who promoted Brexit without even a...

The great advantage of FaceTime is that you can see the person you’re talking to as well as being able to talk to them. On the other hand, t...