In the 66 years that I have been alive, there has not been one hour, of one day, of one month, of one year, when there has not been a threat aimed at….

The British left intermittently erupts like a pustule upon the buttock of a rather good country. Seventy years ago it opposed mobilisation against Ad….

The stubbornness of a weak man should never be underestimated. The weak tend to be very stubborn when they've decided on something..

The man in gray decided to take the Glen Suite of diamonds at midnight. Provided they were still in the apartment safe and the occupants away. This h….

It could well be argued that the continuing rights abuses of the present Iraqi regime, if it is allowed to survive, will prove most distressing. This….

As ever with modern Britain, we are let down by a vast, over-manned, over-funded, hidebound, obstructive, box-ticking and incompetent bureaucracy..

The Internet offers authors and their readers a new diversity of opportunities and freedom..

On Foreign Secretary Robin Cook: If a man cannot keep a measly affair secret, what is he doing in charge of the Intelligence Service?.

It is cold at six-forty in the morning on a March day in Paris, and seems even colder when a man is about to be executed by firing squad..

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the ….

I'm very sceptical about some of the excesses that I regard the Milibands of this world are leading towards. When you think about it, it's all been i….

The British have always coped without becoming a dictatorship..

The last of the lonely places is the sky, a trackless void where nothing lives or grows, and above it, space itself. Man may have been destined to wa….