The Cameron election
One of the first things that the coalition did on taking office was to announce the date of the next election. This was meant to prevent destablising speculation about when… Read more
How did Mary Seacole come to be revered as a black icon?
Isn’t it time, just out of perversity, that we all signed the petition on the Operation Black Vote website to restore the part-time nurse Mary Seacole to the national curriculum?… Read more
12 January 2013
Poor Nick Clegg keeps trying to change the constitution and keeps being balked (the Alternative Vote, Lords reform). At last, he believes, he will be able to fulfil his ambition… Read more
The ineffable sadness of Franco’s ruins
The end of an old year cast me into a portentous frame of mind as I descended a couple of thousand feet down an ancient path through forest, brush and… Read more
Gnomes of Zurich will fall like skittles before US investigators finish with them
So farewell, Wegelin & Co, the oldest bank in Switzerland and the one with the simplest strategy for growth — which was to offer secret accounts to American tax-evaders who… Read more
