2007-12-27 10:30:05
At my daughter's Christmas concert on Monday night, none of the Tamil parents knew the words to the carols, so the Jews had to sing twice as loud. The next morning I read Libby Purves's elegant reproach to the great...
2007-12-27 10:28:18
Yesterday, the day on which the former Lord Chancellor Lord Falconer of Thoroton effectively killed the Government's 42-day detention plan, was also the 43rd day that Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito spent in custody in Italy in connection with the...
2007-12-18 07:14:33
One of the curiosities of the Abrahams affair was the suggestion that it all had to do, somehow, with Jewish power, through (naturally) the less obviously Protocol-ish medium of support for Israel. There was the Telegraph front page showing Mr...
2007-12-12 15:47:14
Gordon Brown was right not to go to Lisbon at the weekend, but even so, there was something marvellous about seeing Robert Mugabe being Merkelled in the flesh by the German Chancellor. There, impassive, he was forced to sit while...
2007-12-06 17:28:04
For Christmas I would like a special writer's present. This would be the uninhibited capacity to be able to write sentences about stench and stink and sleaze and about how politics is enmired in corruption, or else about how government...