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Alaa al-Aswany is a good novelist. I enjoyed the Yacoubian building, a clever and witty exposition of Egypt after the rise of Nasser. Aswany's writing has sensitively chronicled modern Egypt ever since.

The Government's Constitutional Reform and Governance Bill, published yesterday, will allow the House of Lords to suspend or expel a peer if it thinks that "the House is in disrepute because of

ENGAGE, a website headed by Mohammed Ali Harrath, who is the subject of an Interpol red notice for alleged terrorist activity, was set up in order to supposedly monitor anti Muslim activity.

In the last two weeks, The Times has run two comment pieces on Afghanistan. Both are as fascinating as they are distinctly different.

Mohammad Naseem, Chairman of the influential Birmingham Central Mosque (BCM), is well known for his ‘questions' regarding the true perpetrators of the July 7 terrorist attacks in London. Last weekend, he finally

Ours is a cowardly society. This is particularly true of the media and publishing industries. How else to explain the lack of attention paid to the Gibson Square incident.

There's an inspiring concert tonight at St Margaret's Church, Westminster: Breaking through the Silence is English PEN's Writers in Prison major fundraising event of the year, an evening of music and spoken

Last night I went to the 35th anniversary party for the Centre for Policy Studies, the think-tank which provided the intellectual impetus behind Thatcherism. There was a distinct smell of dust in

Michael Shields, a 22-year-old football fan serving 10 years in prison for the attempted murder of a Bulgarian waiter in 2005, was told today that he is unlikely to receive a free

Something a bit unusual this morning: a chance to watch a 20-minute interview with the greatest judge of his generation. You can see my discussion with Lord Bingham here.