Qatar

Did anyone really think that Qatar won the World Cup fairly?

7 June 2014 9:00 am

I suppose the appalling shock to the soul that was occasioned by the allegation that Qatar bribed its way to…

Hard times for Hamas

22 March 2014 9:00 am

The party is out of favour with its foreign neighbours and with ordinary Gazans

High life

15 March 2014 9:00 am

 Gstaad The American newspaper that prints only news it sees fit to poison good things recently announced ‘The end of…

24 hours in a Qatari jail cell

1 February 2014 9:00 am

This column nearly didn’t appear. Another 24 hours and I would have trumped the late Jeffrey Bernard with the single…

High life

18 January 2014 9:00 am

Al Goldstein, who died recently and made the front page of the New York Times, was among the world’s most…

High Life

14 December 2013 9:00 am

This Christmas our thoughts need to be with our fellow Christians who are being threatened in the Bible lands. No…

High life

21 September 2013 9:00 am

Gstaad Why are hacks scared to state the obvious? In Britain the excuse is the strict libel laws. But in…