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For some years, CagePrisoners (CP) has enjoyed a very useful relationship with Amnesty International. The Sunday Times has an exclusive story about one of Amnesty's senior official raising serious concerns about the

In an interview today timed to coincide with the publication of her autobiography, the Duchess of Devonshire laments the loss of the stiff upper lip in British society. We have become, she

Last Saturday's Guardian had a good piece by Charlotte Higgins on the contemporary relevance of The Iliad. Although it is interesting, the article makes some comparisons that are overly simplistic and should

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 he met with Detroit bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab

I was lucky - privileged even - to be invited by the Southbank Centre to watch Daniel Barenboim rehearse with the Berlin Staatskapelle for his run of Beethoven and Schoenberg concerts. I

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

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 Arabia and Yemen operated entirely independently.

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 site, written by Jeremy Nicholas and another excellent

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 Independent. The day of the woman conductor…