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When I was collecting material for a political gossip column, and someone said something interesting, I would wait for them to add, 'and I... →
When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if... →
The Chinese do make vast quantities of wine for home consumption, but you wouldn't want to drink it yourself.
When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my... →
Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull.
I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.
If you read the 'Daily Mail,' you would imagine that the British middle classes lead lives of unremitting misery.
In Washington, success is just a training course for failure.
She is the first head of government in history to give a whole country its second childhood.
When you actually see Barack Obama, it's startling how slight he is and how young he looks.
I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide... →
Corney & Barrow are proud to have the royal warrant, meaning that they provide the Palace with some of the greatest - and necessarily most... →
There are few tribes more loathsome than the American Right, and their vicious use of the shortcomings in the NHS to attack Barack Obama's... →