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One of the things about spending your whole life digging up information, asking questions, demanding answers and then writing it all down for public consumption, is that you tend to develop a wide-ranging and interesting perspective on life. Plus, you know the best way with which to share these observations with others.
- The Bulletin, 9 December 2003
The year 2003 marked the end of professional politics and the return of the celebrity politician, the man or woman whose face is instantly recognisable because we’ve seen it on the TV or the cinema screen but whose policies we neither know nor care about. [more...]
- The Notting Hill Gate, where I have lived for the past forty years, is a very different place than the one portrayed in newspapers during the Peter Mandelson affair. [more...]
- The French say that everyone has two countries--their own and France. Some of us are even luckier. I have three countries and my lifestyle has involved living in all three. I was born in Australia, I live most of the time in Britain and in 1960 I discovered India. [more...]
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Let us begin with a question: why should you read a book by an author long since dead about a war fought more than half a century ago? [more...]
- Three years into the government’s ten year strategy to fight drugs, the war is over. The government lost. Not only is Britain awash with drugs but they are more affordable and more easily available than ever before. The time has come to face the fact that drugs have become just another part of our leisure activity. [more...]
- Kennedy's Wars book review
In the middle of the Cuban Bay of Pigs fiasco, the CIA and the Joint Chiefs of Staff came to President Kennedy and gave him the bad news. The Cuban-exile troops were trapped on the beach. Kennedy would have to reverse his public pledge and openly introduce American air and naval power if the invasion to topple Castro were to succeed. [more...]
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