A British lawyer would like to think of himself as part of that mysterious entity called The Law; an American lawyer would like a swimming pool and t….

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else..

When you visit a foreign city you are in it, but not of it, separated by a glass wall. Once, while a student, I was getting dressed in my ground-floo….

Some government expenditure actually makes a profit. Our theatre leads the world. Loads of tourists must be attracted by the fact that you could spen….

Even I would find a book about my life pretty dull..

Peter Mandelson is the only man I know who can skulk in broad daylight..

Kind 'Guardian' readers have been forwarding me round robin Christmas newsletters for years now: lengthy missives full of perfect children, exotic ho….

I know of no wars started by anyone to impose lack of religion on someone else. We have lethal Sunni v Shia, Catholic against Protestant, but no agno….

The nanny seemed to be extinct until 1975, when, like the coelacanth, she suddenly and unexpectedly reappeared in the shape of Margaret Thatcher..

The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral..

All over the U.S. there are people whose lives are being destroyed for lack of proper health care provision, and there is no sight more odious than t….

I've been intrigued by 'Le Monde' ever since work took me to Paris once, and I noted that on a day when there was some huge worldwide story, the pape….

Until now their line has been that the Tories are incapable of doing anything about poverty, and aren't interested in doing it in the first place. By….

Living in New York is like being at some terrible late-night party. You're tired, you've had a headache since you arrived, but you can't leave becaus….

Canada is not so much a country as a clothesline nearly 4,000 miles long. St John's in Newfoundland is closer to Milan, Italy than to Vancouver..

I also learned to play Fruit Ninja on an iPad. It is quite hypnotic, and I hope one day to get past 100 points. I remembered that David Cameron admit….

Disney World has acquired by now something of the air of a national shrine. American parents who don't take their children there sense obscurely that….

America loves the representation of its heroes to be not just larger than life, but stupendously, awesomely bigger than anything else. If blue whales….

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox..

Remember how Margaret Thatcher came to believe that abroad was more important than at home? Didn't do her much good..

In Washington, success is just a training course for failure..