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I have no idea how he would have come across on the GMTV sofa, but sometimes I think all our political problems could be solved if the man being lined up to be our next Foreign Secretary was not Lord Mandelson but Lord Palmerston.  read more »

Very glad to see, according to Saturday's Times, that antlers are back.  read more »

We men have many weaknesses.  read more »

We live in a world where the greatest compliment is not to be thought wise, right or just but in tune, on trend and leading edge.  read more »

The problem with the Conservative Party, Evelyn Waugh once argued, is that we have never put the clock back by even a single second.  read more »

Over many hundreds of years mankind has evolved subtle and intricate rituals to mark the transition young males must make from boyhood to maturity.  read more »

Abraham Lincoln? David Lloyd George? Winston Churchill? Who in the pantheon of Gove heroes should take pride of place?  read more »

Public life has become one vast poptastic interview,  read more »

Short of a grassroots campaign among the turkey community calling for all our Christmases to come early it's hard to think of a more wilfully self-destructive act than the decision by postal workers to go on strike and thus ensure that all our presents actually come sometime in February.  read more »

For Wagner it was Love and Death, for Shakespeare, Heroism and Humanity, for Tolstoy, War and Peace.  read more »