I don’t believe in goodness. Or, to be more precise, I’m suspicious of it. It’s a quality that many can connive at. When they do it’s nothing more than hypocrisy or duplicity. The tri...
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I’ve always wanted to be bald. I know that sounds strange but it’s perfectly explicable. And no, I do not yearn to look like Yul Brynner or Telly Savalas. Nor do I wish to masquerade as the ...
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“Hey, hey watch out!”

It was a female voice and by the sound of it quite appalled at seeing me reach for a Coke. But at the time I did not know this. So I took a glass off the proff...
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It was a casual conversation with the Prime Minister but it made me realise the importance of charm. Whatever else he may be, he’s a very charming man. Sadly, that’s not a quality I can readi...
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Lee Kuan Yew is the Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi or Mohammed Ali Jinnah of Singapore. In fact, more. He not only created the state but lived to ensure it became what he envisaged of it. Our foundi...
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There were two stories in the British papers last week that raise an interesting issue. The first is the revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an interview when he was 29, boasted of taking dr...
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There were two stories in the British papers last week that raise an interesting issue. The first is the revelation that Arnold Schwarzenegger, in an interview when he was 29, boasted of taking dr...
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“Just because you’ve been there doesn’t mean you know the place” Charlie Douglas-Home once said as he heard me pontificating about Nigeria. No doubt he was laughing but there was a point t...
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My excitement was undeniable. It was an invitation I had hoped for and when it unexpectedly arrived I spent a while staring at it. It wasn’t grand. Nor was it particularly sophisticated. And ...
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It was, no doubt, another world but things were not that different. In the 1950s and ‘60s, when my father was a soldier, the Army kept its distance from politicians. There were many reasons why...
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