Have you noticed how the world doesn’t like America? Few countries have anything good to say. The irony is that those for whom it has done the most tend to be least grateful. And this applies ...
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Pertie’s phone call took me by surprise. Fortunately it was a saturday and I had time on hand but I hadn’t expected the challenge he threw at me.

“What do you make of all this fuss...
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It happened in 1986. It was a crisp sunny Valentine’s Day and I remember the brilliance of the bright blue sky. My desk at London Weekend Television, where I worked, overlooked the Thames and t...
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Do phone calls from banks offering loans or credit card companies flogging their products irritate you? Do you find that your temper flares and you rudely cut them off? But then, your anger spent...
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If David Mulford had met Charles Igoh things might have turned out differently. Chief Igoh, to give him his due, was Press Adviser to President Shehu Shagari in Nigeria in the early 1980s. It was...
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Where does the buck stop? The Supreme Court judgement explaining why it struck down the dissolution of the Bihar Assembly suggests that its effective resting place is with the state governor. Alt...
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Do you believe in numerology? I can’t claim I do but, equally, I cannot deny I’m fascinated by the influence of integers. It’s not just mysterious, sometimes it’s even mystical. And all ...
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General Musharraf knew how his ideas would be received in India. “It’s a bombshell” he said, as we changed tapes half way through the interview I did last week. “They won’t like it.”<...
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Often in the last few weeks I’ve had occasion to recall a conversation with my old friend Praveen Anand. “Medicine” he would declare “is the most honourable profession in the world”. As...
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The phone rang horribly late at night but, for reasons I cannot fathom, I responded in an attentive mood. Normally the hour and tone of the conversation would undoubtedly have put me off.