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Thirty years ago, Britain achieved a remarkable victory over Argentina when it successfully deployed ships and troops to the Falkland Island...

When I thought of writing this piece about a profile of the Daily Mail which has just appeared in The New Yorker , the phrase ‘the man you l...

A few years ago, I did something which to many of my friends seemed quite inexplicable and which even I must admit was out of character. But...

In the whacky world of newspapers which I inhabit and which I trust I shall be able to inhabit for the next two years and eight months (of w...

We all had our fave bands when we were still in our salad days and life was a roller-coaster ride which seemed beautiful and perfect one min...

For many years after Twitter came into being, I simply could not see the point of it. Tweeters, I thought, were simply irritating neophiles ...

After my entry of a few days ago highlighting Peter Hitchens report from Moscow, it occurred to me that I should, perhaps, clarify my view i...

Oh, if everything in life were as simple as it was when you were five, supper at 5pm, followed by bath, story and bed. We who are no longer ...

I first began to visit Cornwall after my father retired, remarried and settled here in St Breward, in a cottage less than a quarter of a mil...

I’m sorry if I’m behaving like a dog with a bone, but the more I consider the ‘crisis in Greece’ and various ‘solutions’, the more I think t...