She is the recently re-elected president of the European Commission and a former German defence minister, a name known to many, but who is Ursula von…

There’s a heady atmosphere in certain quarters of Britain’s General Election. Not among the Conservatives, obviously. Their best ploy now is to…

Late last month, a new kind of phone caused a sensation at a design show in Milan. Some people were calling this radical innovation the ‘dumb phone.’…

The world may be changing rapidly, mostly for the worse, yet in London’s Somerset House, built with all the stolid permanence of the Neoclassical…

It’s hard to believe that as long ago as January, an Irish barrister representing South Africa appeared at the ICJ to accuse Israel of genocide…

In Britain, the news that the Princess of Wales has been diagnosed with cancer has come as a huge shock.Ever since her hospitalisation for abdominal…

An old mate of mine – old being the operative word here – has taken to complaining that whatever ‘beauty capital’ he once had is sadly depleted.In an…

At the end of January 2024, a Lebanese-born Australian scholar by the name of Ghassan Hage was summarily sacked from his role at the Max Planck…

Events in the Middle East continue to dominate the headlines as far away as Britain.This week, the visit of the Rev. Dr Munther Isaac, Lutheran…

It may be a little early to determine what will swing the election in America. If a week is a long time in politics, ten months feels like an…