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If you think that football is the international game, think again. If you think it’s athletics, or chess, or tiddlywinks, well, you’re still...

The devil’s in the detail, they say. Again and again I have to admit that ’s true,  when I ’m  trying to refresh my knowledge of history, as...

As a spectator sport, politics can be right up there with the most gripping.  Sometimes, here in Spain, it feels like a gritty comedy drama....

When I was a kid, certain people – mostly conservative people – would hold up Victorian morality as a model that society as a whole, and I i...

In my memory, David Ross was a large man. Something about him always made me think of him as a walrus. He was tall and broad-shouldered and ...

It’s surprising how tedious a job it is getting rid of widows and orphans. It took me ages the other day and required a lot of patience. How...

They say that the first casualty of war is the truth. I’m not sure of that. It strikes me that both reason and humanity go first. The killin...