March 2010

"I probably underestimated how resistant some people would be to anyone presuming to think they had anything new to offer..." Juliana Farha, founder and MD of Dilettante Music, was one of only

Congratulations to Alexander McCall Smith, who was called to the Scottish Bar yesterday. Now best known for the No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency Series, McCall Smith was professor of medical law at

UK Islamists and sections of the extreme left continue to insist that groups like the Taliban are freedom fighters who enjoy popular support among local civilians. Today, a group of Afghan villagers

London's Evening Standard has reported that there are plans to open a new 80s-themed club called, appropriately enough, Maggie's, in Chelsea next month. God knows who it is designed to attract, but

The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis

"It is almost impossible to believe this misery was once a beautiful German city known as Königsberg, where Kant thought, Herder wrote and Prussia began"

The recent Israeli Apartheid Week shamefully neglected Zionism's complaisance to peaceful co-existence

Interesting article in today's Independent interviewing Daisy Goodwin, chair of the jury for this year's Orange Prize for Women's Fiction. She is utterly depressed by the amount of "misery lit" out there.

Yesterday, there were conflicting reports about the arrest of American al-Qaeda (AQ) spokesman, Adam Gadahn, in Karachi. Although Pakistani officials claim he was arrested on Sunday, US intelligence sources claimed that they

Britain was "strongly urged" today to allow prisoners to vote at the general election. Officials at the Council of Europe "reiterated their serious concern" that the government's failure to implement a judgment