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Jonathan Sumption QC may have a brain the size of a planet but that hasn't stopped his clients in the British government from distancing themselves from the infamous letter he sent to

...sat on the wall of the new Lottery-funded arts building and wondered where all the people were...

I spent a lovely evening at the Romanian Cultural Institute's Enescu Society on Thursday. They have a series of concerts in the L-shaped salon of their beautiful ambassadorial house in Belgrave Square,

CBS News is breaking an exclusive story over in the United States. It seems that Anwar al-Awlaki did indeed direct the abortive Christmas day attack by Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Here's what CBS

I am told that the Judicial Appointments Commission is in difficulties over the selection of a new president for the High Court Family Division. Sir Mark Potter, currently the senior family judge,

High summer casts a dusty light over the city. I worked on the Mall on a couple of Sunday afternoons. I loved painting the flags — two-dimensional objects turned into three by

There is no game of wits at which losing is more unpleasant than chess. Any game involving cards or dice involves chance. One can blame losses on the fickle Goddess Fortuna. Her

A year ago I was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. I attribute my recovery and survival, in part at least, to a grim determination not to predecease my father Raymond Carr. He

Clive Davis, at his recently rehomed blog which is now called Clive Davis' Confab, has posted a clip of Glenn Gould playing Bach, along with the remark that this particular piece has

The radical American imam, Anwar al-Awalki, whose praise for the Fort Hood gunman, Nidal Hasan, we reported on this blog seems to have gone on the run. Not only did Awlaki declare

Mediation 'is not about just settlement', said Professor Dame Hazel Genn last December. 'It is just about settlement.

"Vain man, vision of a moment made;Dream of a dream, shadow of a shade"Looking intensively outside yourself, investigating with an inquiring mind and asking questions about the nature of reality, provide a