Shoot First, Mumble Later

This afternoon, BBC World broadcast an episode of Heritage Heroes applauding the work of Mohamed Turshi al Soghayer who was instrumental in ...

Bobby Farrell, of Boney M died in St.Petersberg yesterday, in his hotel rather than during a performance of Rasputin. I wrote a column about...

If there's one good thing to come out of the absurd verdict in the trial of Binayak Sen, it is the overthrow of the idea that decisions ...

There's finally a caesura in the narrative of Barack Obama's presidency. The stimulus was signed when he'd barely taken charge, ...

Now Sachin Tendulkar's got his 50th Test century, the media have predictably revived the debate about whether he's the greatest bats...

James L Brooks' How Do You Know , one of the rare recent examples of a big budget spent mainly on actors, is doing very poorly at the bo...

It was a painful experience that recurred over a number of years. I'd wake up, switch on the television and find Australia on approximat...

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you. I'm warming to the notion that the rape charges against Jul...

I received a number of responses, almost unanimously negative, to my column about armies and cities. One of the best exchanges was with a r...

I stay away from Indian newspaper sites as much as I can because of the intrusive ads they use, but can't avoid them completely. So ,thi...