Saud bin Abd al-Aziz was the moon-faced, shortsighted, bespectacled son of the old founder of Saudi Arabia, who'd always been his father's protege bu….

I lived in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s. It was, for a Westerner, pretty idyllic. There were the religious police; there were the rules; there were….

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state..

My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational..

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the roy….

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious..

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups..

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy..