Widower's Tango

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. When I watched the crowds of mourners screaming at Kim Jong Il's grotesque funeral, I thought o...

"London had an aspect of a proletarian Byron: illegitimate, handsome, wildly romantic, casting himself as the rebel and revolutionary, ...

"Below is a letter which reached my desk this morning. It's a commentary on what we laughingly call a civilized world. 'Dear Mi...

While reading the Essays of George Orwell, which is an obligatory activity for me, I found what I think is the most carefully reasoned argu...

"The original and most important sphere of activity, one that predetermines all the others, is simply an attempt to create and support ...

There are very few political writers worth taking seriously who have been able to put their faces in front of their words. That was one of C...

On the centenary - 14 December - of Roald Amundsen's conquest of the South Pole, I recommend a brilliant book by an unconventional histo...