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The New York Times has reported that al-Qaeda cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who has been promoted in the UK since 2003, has now admitted that

I was lucky - privileged even - to be invited by the Southbank Centre to watch Daniel Barenboim rehearse with the Berlin Staatskapelle for

The Times reports today on the ‘Taliban payoff row' surrounding the plans set out yesterday during the London Afghanistan conference to coax factions that

I've got the latest statement here from Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) celebrating their first anniversary, before which its local chapters in Saudi

Dearest Wolfi,Today, 27 January, I thought I'd write to you personally to wish you the very happiest of happy birthdays.

RIP Earl Wild, the great American pianist who has died at the age of 94. There's a perceptive and thorough obituary on the Gramophone

I’ve been away on tour with the LPO in sunnier climes, but in the intervening time a piece of mine came out in the

A FEW days ago, Guernica magazine accused me of not citing sources when I criticised Noam Chomsky. I responded by posting a source-ridden chapter