2007-06-26 06:18:36
Say you have a good friend, practically family, whom you?ve known for some time and whose advice you value. Of course there are differences in emphasis. He likes angling where you prefer soccer and he occasionally forgets ? where you...
2007-06-23 10:58:31
HERE?S ONE TO SPOIL your weekend. Within the next few years some country somewhere is likely to use nuclear weapons against its enemy. This is the conclusion ? made without apocalyptic language ? reached in William Langewiesche?s long essay on...
2007-06-18 21:34:43
Bring me my bow of burning gold, bring me my arrows of desire. And I?ll bring you the hide of Patricia McKeever, the internet Torquemada of Scottish Catholic gaydom. Ms McKeever, of Catholic Truth is, as reported in The Times...
2007-06-12 06:40:57
Last summer I went to the prize-giving at a school in the country. Very few of the absurdly tall and elegant teenagers receiving heavy books and shiny plaques were being cited for just one quality. Some had, it seemed, run...
2007-06-05 05:40:26
I was somewhere between Airfix and puberty when, 40 years ago today, the Six Day War began with preemptive Israeli strikes on Egyptian airbases. Then, it was exciting, the culmination of a period of heightening threats from President Nasser, with...
2007-06-02 09:45:59
A fortnight or so ago I received an email from a film-maker. A leading public figure had suggested that I might help him publicise his television programme about the Middle East, which was due to be shown on a major...