I was so disappointed recently by a Cezanne exhibition (at Tate Modern), that I wrote about the frames rather than the paintings. How, then, to…

Britain is possibly the most confused nation in the world. It is certainly one of the oldest, and mental confusion frequently comes with advanced age…

We tend to forget that one of cinema’s abiding action men took his name from a birdwatcher. Yet Ian Fleming, himself an avid enthusiast of all things…

There is a lot to be said for soft power.Sitting under Sir Norman Foster’s glass done in the Reichstag building in Berlin where members of Germany’s …

As a child, I was taught never to mock the afflicted. It’s a good question where or when that rule began, because the afflicted were fair game in…

A huge controversy has arisen over whether it is correct to handle kids’ psyches with kid (i.e., very soft) gloves. On the principle that no job is…

When I told my mum that I was writing about how the ultra-rich plan to live in bunkers to escape the apocalypse, her response was a little bit…

Let no one say I fail to keep my readers abreast of world events. It has attracted little notice, but this week has seen the death of a monarch. If…

So, the results are in. Finally, courtesy of the ‘selectorate’ of Tory party members, we have a new prime minister. We have a head of state called…

Not so long ago, Russia’s Foreign Minister, Sergey Lavrov, made some very striking remarks on Italian television. According to the Guardian, he was…