Wow, what a week. London may be bad for one’s health, but it sure makes it fun on the way…

Tempus sure fugit, and how. Twenty years ago, on Saturday 1 July 1995, monarchs from around the world descended on…

Last Wednesday, 24 June, Pugs held a luncheon in honour of our first member to depart for the Elysian Fields,…

When I founded the American Conservative 13 years ago — the purpose being to shine a light on the neocon…

There’s nothing to add to Martin Vander Weyer’s item about Hellas of two weeks ago in these here pages except…

The last week in Gotham was exceptional fun. I saw a Broadway play, Finding Neverland, compliments of the producer, my…

An operation on my hand after a karate injury has had me reading more than usual. I even attempted Don…

This is as good as it gets. A light rain is falling on a soft May evening and I’m walking…

OK. Magnanimity in victory is a sine qua non among civilised men and women, so let me not be the…

If any of you sees Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, walking around with a begging bowl in his…

Talk about how the mighty have fallen. Time magazine was for the better part of the 20th century the model…

A recent column in the FT made me mad as hell. The writer, Simon Kuper, calls Vienna a backwater, which…

New York ‘Gimme a BLT on rye and hold da mayo’ is a great Noo Yawk sound. So is boid…