Roots of terror
On the night of All Saints, 1954, a young honeymooning couple of French school teachers, dedicated to their work among…
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In tandem with Asa Briggs, I am speaking at the Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center atop Boston University. This is…
View ArticleRecalling the Cuban Missile Crisis
Like the assassination of JFK, everybody alive then can remember where they were that Doomsday Week of the Cuban Missile…
View ArticleKissinger’s man from Moscow
When Anatoly Dobrynin died earlier this month, aged 90, the British press paid little notice. Yet it is increasingly clear…
View ArticleA portrait of the Lady
Aung San Suu Kyi is free, but has the ruling junta won the battle for Burma’s future? Aung San Suu…
View ArticleCaribbean warmth
My wife and I were married in the Caribbean, on Tortola in the British Virgin Islands, persuaded by two American…
View ArticleSavoy grilling
Eating at uncle Henry’s table So D’Oyly Carte’s art-deco landmark, The Savoy, has at last reopened its doors. In the…
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Britain has not been lucky with her Defence Secretaries. I cannot remember one ‘fit for purpose’ since George Robertson, back…
View ArticleThe bravest of the brave
La comtesse polonaise Krystyna Skarb dit Christine Granville (1908 1952) Espionne en Pologne et en France pendant la seconde guerre mondiale (1939 1945) Ici a l age de 19 ans Mention obligatoire ©Rue...
View ArticleKeeper of the secrets
By any standards Mary Soames was one of the most remarkable women of her era: close confidante (possibly the closest)…
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