Diary

Lifestyle

How the Wild East came West

• 29 January 2009
• 1 comment

Society

Diary: Lisa Appignanesi

• 22 January 2009

The reading cure and the madness of Big Pharma

Diary: Iain Dale

• 15 January 2009

Tea with Tony and Maggie's acid-house party

Life & Society

Diary: Emily Maitlis

• 08 January 2009

Yes, I survived the weapons of mass festivity

Society

Naipaul, Orwell and Stamford Bridge

• 18 December 2008

UK Politics

Lord Kagan, Lord Snooty and a romantic Lady

• 11 December 2008

I didn't go to the Queen's Speech, partly because I don't look good in ermine drag...

Society

Dinner in New York with George Soros

• 04 December 2008
• 2 comments

For a while it felt as if Ocean's Eleven had been given custody of Georgia...

Law & Reform

I miss the Bailey not Blunkett

• 27 November 2008
• 2 comments

The former home secretary absolutely no understanding of the vital function of the jury in our democracy and appeared to have been influenced on the subject by John Grisham

Europe

Why, oh why, do I love Paris?

• 20 November 2008
• 2 comments

Travelling directly by train in two and a half hours from city centre to city centre, you have a feeling of having moved suddenly between two very different worlds

Society

Seventy is the age at which "old" starts

• 13 November 2008