Well the war on Christmas certainly started early this year. On the streets of New York. And in the ugliest way possible. By now everybody will have seen the footage

HENRY KISSINGER had many distinctions in his life. Not the least of these was that he remained politically aware and active right up to his death at 100 today. Read

‘As the helicopters carrying the released hostages landed, traffic stopped. People got out of their cars and broke into song.’ Read more

Between two world wars and a mental breakdown, T.S. Eliot still believed in the possibility of restoration. Read more

The government of Israel – unlike China – is vulnerable to international opinion. Read more

Singing broke out on the streets of Tel Aviv last night as the first hostages arrived back home to Israel after seven weeks in the hell of Gaza. Read more

Sometimes a single sentence, buried like a gem in the hard grit of a poem, is all you need to keep in your head. Read more

The Chibok schoolgirls story caught on, and in short order almost every celebrity in the world got on board. It cohered around the hashtag ‘Bring Back Our Girls’. Read more

As their country unites in the face of terrorist evil, ours is exposing a nasty and divided underbelly Read more