Election Pre-Post-Mortem
If the Tories don't win a solid majority in today's election they have only themselves to blame. Given the unpopularity of Gordon Brown and
Congratulations to EastEnders
Last week I headed north to Glasgow to be a guest on the recently revamped Newsnight Review show - now called simply The Review
…and Inside Out
Yesterday evening, I was pleased to attend an event held to mark the publication of the new book by Melanie Phillips, which forms the
After You’ve Tweeted, Warble
After the fiasco of Popstar to Operastar, the BBC is having a go at finding an opera star of the future. Dame Kiri leads
The Satirist and the Engineer
Mikhail Tal, the Magician from Riga, goes up against the humourless Mikhail Botvinnik
The Ascent of Man
Are humans just the most complex of molecular machines or something qualitatively different?
Early Draws
The British Museum is displaying some of the greatest draughtsmen of the Renaissance
Pilgrim of Meaning
Newman’s Unquiet Grave: Portrait of a Reluctant Saint by John Cornwell There has not been, to say the least, a paucity of books about