Diary
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Life & Society
A very predictable furore
- 29 November 2007
The most irritating aspect of the Nick Griffin-David Irving show is that it's allowed this hoary story to dominate the headlines
Europe
The entente was truly cordiale
- 22 November 2007
Since, as everyone knows, the French are more intelligent than anyone else, it was only fair that they set themselves handicaps, such as the 35-hour week
Life & Society
Red wine and a new beginning
- 15 November 2007
Having survived tuberculosis in my twenties, I assumed there'd be no more illness from then on. How wrong can one be?
UK Politics
Why Brown won't read THAT book
- 08 November 2007
- 1 comment
Jessica, my eldest daughter, asks: "Why are you writing these things that make people angry?"
Middle East
The King and I
- 01 November 2007
How I almost walked out on an audience with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah
Life & Society
Tell the ambassador we haven't a clue
- 25 October 2007
Condoleezza Rice arrives in a US motorcade with CIA outriders and no one in the police or government has the foggiest idea what's going on - it's a metaphor for the peace process
Africa
A date with two Gores
- 18 October 2007
Vidal is still the best company of all, but Al arrives looking visibly troubled
World Affairs
Hail to the Potus
- 11 October 2007
The PR department insists on calling me an "anchorman" - which, in England, conjures up burgundy jackets, waxed moustaches and hair moulded like marzipan
Life & Society
Get a flat-pack divorce from Ikea
- 04 October 2007
My wife has been accusing me of not having enough "Puritan" in my psychology, which is why, apparently, I take so many taxis
Politics
Back to the future
- 27 September 2007
- 3 comments
It seems to me just possible that at last we may have a Croslandite Prime Minister
