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The plot against the Pope
On the first Saturday in February, the people of Rome awoke to find the city covered in peculiar posters depicting…
Calendar clash
On a Friday evening in May 2018 I am going to see the Broadway show Hamilton. We had to book…
How to make drugs boring
Bill Blair, the former police chief of Toronto, slides into his restaurant chair and twinkles at the waitress. He’s 6ft…
Dumbing down the house
Osterley Park on the western fringes of London is a rare survival. A Robert Adam house, with splendid Adam interiors,…
Sydney Notebook
The other day, I went to a boozy barbecue near Sydney’s northern beaches. The guests were all political mates of…
Poison, spies and lies
Washington DC Roger Stone — political consultant, agent provocateur, friend and confidant of Donald Trump — arrives for lunch…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Flock horror
Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…
Let my daughter work
Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…
Star power
The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…
Dublin’s Jewish museum
I love small museums, and the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin is a little gem, located in the neighbourhood once…
Back into battle
On 24 June last year, in the Georgian splendour of her official residence in Edinburgh’s Charlotte Square, Scotland’s First Minister…
Dublin’s Jewish museum
I love small museums, and the Irish Jewish Museum in Dublin is a little gem, located in the neighbourhood once…
Let my daughter work
Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…
Flock horror
Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
Star power
The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…
Star power
The ongoing war between Donald Trump and the Hollywood A-list has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Celebrity criticism of…
Let my daughter work
Freud said ‘Love and work… work and love, that’s all there is.’ And ‘Love and work are the cornerstones of…
Flock horror
Pity the poor sheep. Every other animal has its champions. There are fox fanatics, dog obsessives, campaigners for cat welfare.…
Memory games
Poor Paul Nuttall. He seemed to have everything a cheeky by-election victor needed: the outsider vim, the accent, the cap.…
A bookseller’s duty
To my mind, a bookshop is like a library — the only difference is that you buy the books, you…
L’anti-Trump
If you believe the hype, Emmanuel Macron is l’anti-Trump. He is what the inter-national centre-left, reeling from the shocks of…
Islam’s lost Enlightenment
I am quite used to people smirking into their sleeves when they hear that I’ve just written a book called…
Against Queen Camilla
How would you feel about a Queen Camilla, as in the wife of King Charles? Personally I’d be dead against,…
