During the next 20 years the number of people aged over 85 will double. As it is, the elderly are living far longer than in the Forties, when the present system of care for old age was set up... more
Margaret Thatcher is 'determined' to attend the grand unveiling of a statue of Ronald Reagan in London on July 4 despite having been too unwell to make the royal wedding... more
All is well in the spread-betting industry. It's a happy tale of innovation and success, of a young(ish) industry built by clever people, making money and creating jobs out of an interesting idea. The City of London at its best. Officially... more
Few in this country will have heard of the American antitrust lawyer Kenneth Davidson but he has just written a book entitled Reality Ignored which affects us all... more
One of the curiosities of Christian Carion's espionage drama is that the two leading characters are played by film-makers better known than he is... more
Seventeen US helicopter crewmen helping in the Japanese rescue efforts were contaminated with radiation today as fears grew of a nuclear meltdown... more
You have to be in the right mood for change, so when I received my latest electioneering email from David Cameron at the weekend, I could not suppress a sigh... more
There's nothing funny about the Bernie Madoff scandal. Nothing at all. Except it's hard to shake the feeling that some of his victims got exactly what they voted for... more
The surrealness of it struck me yesterday at Bon Marché. The man at the exchange counter, usually so surly, asked me my nationality. I got ready to do the usual: bowing my head with shame and whispering so no one could hear: "Americaine".... more
There are better storytellers but Robin Williams oozed the kind of charisma umpteen lesser clowns would kill for at his stand-up gig at the Gielgud Theatre.... more
Ronald Reagan once said that trees cause more pollution than automobiles do. Some wag responded by putting up signs on trees, begging "Cut me down before I kill again"... more
Clint Eastwood, Hollywood's most famous Republican, used to make gung-ho movies, but his latest is anti-war. As he tells Mike Goodridge, he didn't mean it to be unpatriotic.... more
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