Diary
Someone in the public eye tells us about their week
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Life & Society
Pens, rulers, fists - and tears
- 03 January 2008
Being unemployed would be fine if you knew in nine months you'd land a dream gig. So it's a finite period, and you can have a ball, or learn Italian, or watch Jeremy Kyle
Life & Society
The chance to begin again
- 13 December 2007
A fire, a cat, carols on Christmas Eve and cabbage picked from the garden. Certain rituals cannot be improved upon
Life & Society
I can't play the piano but let me blow my trumpet
- 06 December 2007
Christmas purists will protest that it's too early to go festive, but it's only once a year and I want to make the most of it
Life & Society
A very predictable furore
- 29 November 2007
The most irritating aspect of the Nick Griffin-David Irving show is that it's allowed this hoary story to dominate the headlines
Europe
The entente was truly cordiale
- 22 November 2007
Since, as everyone knows, the French are more intelligent than anyone else, it was only fair that they set themselves handicaps, such as the 35-hour week
Life & Society
Red wine and a new beginning
- 15 November 2007
Having survived tuberculosis in my twenties, I assumed there'd be no more illness from then on. How wrong can one be?
UK Politics
Why Brown won't read THAT book
- 08 November 2007
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Jessica, my eldest daughter, asks: "Why are you writing these things that make people angry?"
Middle East
The King and I
- 01 November 2007
How I almost walked out on an audience with Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah
Life & Society
Tell the ambassador we haven't a clue
- 25 October 2007
Condoleezza Rice arrives in a US motorcade with CIA outriders and no one in the police or government has the foggiest idea what's going on - it's a metaphor for the peace process
Africa
A date with two Gores
- 18 October 2007
Vidal is still the best company of all, but Al arrives looking visibly troubled
