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Politics on the Edge

‘David has decided,’ one of his aides explained, when I met him later, ‘that one cannot criticise...

A bright, solemn day. On such days you forget your weaknesses, imprecisions, ailments, and...

I. Truly, I live in dark times! An artless word is foolish. A smooth forehead Points to...

There’s a place between two stands of trees where the grass grows uphill and the old...

And here is Henry, Thomas’s younger brother, already recognized as one of the most ambitious...

I am so sure that everything we now take for granted is going to be utterly swept away in the next decade.

The cliche is blamed for spoiling language and style. While this may be true, its destructive...

There were a number of possible replacements for the Admiral – a dozen or so crew members...

Heckling is, or once was, the process of removing the knots from wool. Sheep are notoriously...

I stay awake, I listen, I learn. Early this morning, less than an hour before dawn, there was...

A lot of people have already written a lot of interesting responses to the Covid-19 situation,...

Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt like nothing...