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29.06.13 Publication: The Times

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28.02.13 Publication: The Times

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21.01.13 Publication: The Times

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19.12.12 Publication: The Times

The threatened return of the bunga-bunga warrior is only one part of the country’s refusal to face harsh reality  He just cannot resist the...

24.09.12 Publication: The Times

“How courteous is the Japanese,” ran Ogden Nash’s poem from the 1930s, “he always says ‘Excuse it please.’ He climbs into his neighbor’s garden,...

10.09.12 Publication: The Times

How nice it would be to bounce back cheerfully in after one’s summer break, predicting that the economic crisis was over, that recovery was on the way, that...

20.08.12 Publication: The Times

As we near the fourth anniversary of the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, and even the fifth of when the distressed warbling of canaries in our...

06.08.12 Publication: The Times

These days, Chinese efficiency is much admired. Indeed, until our Olympics got successfully under way, London lingered under the shadow of Beijing’s...

23.07.12 Publication: The Times

The sun has got its hat on, at last, and many are about to luxuriate in all that lycra at the Games. It will be a distraction, of sorts, from the economic...

09.07.12 Publication: The Times

The issues are simple. That is what the massing ranks of Eurosceptics say, whether in bar-rooms, tea-rooms or TV studios. The British people must be allowed to...

25.06.12 Publication: The Times

Forget Greece. Put Spain to one side. The future of the euro will be decided in the country whose boot stretches stylishly between them in the middle of the...

11.06.12 Publication: The Times

The mind-concentrating merits of imminent catastrophe can be praised once again: the decision by euro-zone finance ministers to lend Spain enough money (100...

28.05.12 Publication: The Times

Is there nothing our government will not stoop to in order to make Britain look bad? Fresh from David Cameron’s lecturing of European leaders and the...

14.05.12 Publication: The Times

Many of us, when confronted with a ballot paper, feel an urge to put a cross in a box marked “a plague on all your houses”. The snag, representative...

30.04.12 Publication: The Times

Two ideas are gripping minds all over Europe. One is that next Sunday’s elections in France and Greece, spiced up by local elections in Italy on the same...

16.04.12 Publication: The Times

Do you want the good news or do you want the bad news? How many times, when someone has said that to you, have you wanted to wring their neck? Well, to save...

02.04.12 Publication: The Times

No one, it is safe to say, wants to hear any more about Cornish pasties, nor to find out whether any featured on the menu for those donors’ dinners in the...

22.03.12 Publication: The Times

Chancellors of the Exchequer seem to take an oath when they enter office that they will henceforward ensure that the words “iron” and “reforming”...

05.03.12 Publication: The Times

Birthday parties are not always happy occasions. One, probably apocryphal, story of one of Sir John Gielgud’s parties during his 80s has the great thespian...

20.02.12 Publication: The Times

There is something spooky about the economic and financial scene on both sides of the Atlantic, something all too reminiscent of the summer of 2008. ...

06.02.12 Publication: The Times

Let’s admit it. We have all greeted snowy transport paralysis by being pleased to stay at home, snuggle up, and have an excuse to open that bottle of whisky...

23.01.12 Publication: The Times

There is a time in all American presidential election campaigns when we outsiders, and probably many Americans too, scratch our heads and wonder why on earth...

09.01.12 Publication: The Times

Hands up all those against fairness? No, I thought not, and plainly David Cameron thinks not too, or he wouldn´t have launched the new year by...