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If you become the chairman of the British Museum, there is one rather obvious way to try to please people.

Everyone who has moved to this country to work here legally can swop horror stories of the grinding procedures, the lengthy processing times, and the expense.

For most of the country, home burglary has become effectively a non-crime, just like bike theft and phone theft. It is one reason why Ms Braverman promised in a speech yesterday to raise the number of police on our streets to the highest number on record.

The words of Persian poet Omar Khayyam—revitalized by a brilliant English translator—remind us to never give up on life.

There have been so many upsets in American politics of late that it’s understandable that almost everybody thinks they have a chance.

The case of Laurence Fox shows how far our society is now run by inhabitants of Wonderland

Whenever something horrible happens you expect the waters of human kindness to stay open up for a while at least.

Constantine Cavafy’s poem ‘Ithaca’ reminds us that life should be about the journey, not the destination.

Australia has a choice: concede all failures of the Aboriginal peoples are directly due to ‘settlers’, or at some point give itself a break. The English did nothing wrong. Neither did any of you.

I’m sure there are some girls who don’t want to dream about a Prince Charming. But why should they dream of being something like a deputy undersecretary at the United Nations?

You’d have thought that at such a time the media would have protected one of their own. You’d have perhaps expected PEN, the ADL and all those other fat, over-funded, pompous organizations to condemn the violent assault of a journalist.

The 18th-century English poet Thomas Gray offers us a glimpse of a cemetery in the countryside—while urging us to ponder the finiteness of life.