SO little was there to discuss during the Mideast visit of Condoleezza Rice and so little analysis after the fact, that people have been wondering why she embarked on the visit in the first place.
It was the late president of France, Charles de Gaulle, who famously said, “Brazil has a great future, and it always will have.” With the first round of the Brazilian election over with
The British political scene wears an increasingly surreal aspect. If under Prime Minister Tony Blair the Labour Party has moved further to the right than would once have seemed conceivable, the Conservative
First, the best Belfast joke in years, courtesy of my old mate David McKittrick, who in 1972 worked on The Irish Times in Northern Ireland when I was the London Times man there and whose dad once worked
Many Saudis were extremely delighted when the National Dialogue was established. Regardless of their religion, ideas or occupation, most look forward in earnest to the dialogue. The concept of having
If anyone thought that Ramadan would have British Muslims too busy fasting to be in the news, the last week must have been a shock. There’s been no letup in the flow of comment and debate
