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As a schoolboy rugby player, soccer has always been soccer for me, but I accept that the recent World Cup … More

‘Betsy and the Emperor’

Anne Whitehead relates the engaging story of the unlikely meeting in 1815 on the island of Saint Helena, of thirteen … More

Subtitled A portrait of the world before the war 1890-1914, by Barbara Tuchman, it is an impressive history of the … More

What an extraordinary juxtaposition of US mastery and impotence on display today. Irony does not begin to describe the yawning … More

George Orwell’s 1984 as shorthand to signify totalitarian control of society and the malign pervasive rule of ‘Big Brother’ have … More

Unfortunately this download got stuck for a month or so in the back office, where the sub-editors slacked off. They’re … More

The 2018 film by Julian Schnabel titled At Eternity’s Gate is a real gem, which somehow escaped my attention till … More

While viewing an exhibition of European paintings in a Porto (Portugal) art gallery two years ago, I was surprised to … More

Aesthetic vindication can take decades to arrive, but last week in Paris my original judgement of the Louvre’s (in)famous glass … More

Last month twenty-five years ago the Y2K computer bug was threatening armageddon on 31 December, by melting down the world’s … More