$10 million nobodies
Golf has reached the eye-watering end of the season in the United States. By Sunday night, one man in a…
Dear Mary
Q. Some years ago, on holiday in Egypt, we found ourselves in the company of a couple who wanted to…
Proper kosher
A restaurant in a synagogue may be too mad even for this column but we are Jews, so why not?…
Capital letters
One man’s grammatical nicety is another man’s grotesque solecism, I thought, as I perused a report in the Gulf News,…
Global warming pause
Given that the United Nations’ Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change now apparently acknowledges that an unexpected and unexplainable ‘pause’ in…
Diary
For me, the worst day of any campaign is election day. After three years of intense, all-consuming activity the phones…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
In praise of the Liberal Democrats
Far from being dismissed, David Leyonhjelm may spark a genuine libertarian renaissance
An Abbottphobe’s diary
I remain in rehab following the election nightmare. When the all-shining, coiffed, permed and waxed Abbott family appeared at the…
Brown study
September 7 was the first election day I have not spent handing out how-to-vote cards since I was 15. Not…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
Proper kosher
A restaurant in a synagogue may be too mad even for this column but we are Jews, so why not?…
$10 million nobodies
Golf has reached the eye-watering end of the season in the United States. By Sunday night, one man in a…
Wild life
It was towards dusk by the time we had given the tourist police the slip and started climbing the pyramid…
The pity of war
Of all folk memories the Blitz remains one of the most enduring. In the autumn of 1940 the Luftwaffe strafed…
Nick Clegg should stick with the devil he knows
I write this in Glasgow, at the Lib Dem conference. Nick Clegg has invented a constitutional doctrine. The doctrine teaches…
Australian Notes
Will its allies around the world ever recover that confidence in the United States, which they lost with President Obama’s…
Saving the BBC
Three years ago, our columnist and former editor Charles Moore was summoned to Hastings Magistrates’ Court to pay £807 for…
Diary
‘Wider still and wider, may thy bounds be set,’ the ecstatic throng sang at the Last Night of the Proms.…
Portrait of the week
Home George Osborne, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, said that the British economy was ‘turning a corner’, with ‘tentative signs…
Barometer
Trust us The National Trust opened the Big Brother House at Elstree Studios at the weekend. Some other less grand…
Herodotus in Sochi
As a result of Russian laws against propagating homosexuality, there are calls to boycott the 2013 Winter Olympics in Sochi…
