Brave New World?

When, at 3 o'clock on the morning of September 30 , I flopped, bleary-eyed, into a chair  in a Berlin hotel room, activated my laptop and started to write about John Le Carre's Cold War Trilogy, it did not occur to me that the ensuing post was to be the beginning of my (first) trilogy. The story so far: A…

The life and times of Prince George

The late editor of Punch, Alan Coren, informed a friend after his first golf lesson that it was " a hideous, hideous game and, as for the bunkers, it was no wonder that Hitler died in one." Following the communique at the end of the G20 meeting in Russia last week, it remains to be seen…