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I remember with vague fondness my time at Trinity and All Saints College, which was then a small Catholic institution affiliated wi...

John Wayne as Taw Jackson and Kirk Douglas as Lomax in The War Wagon (dir. Burt Kennedy, 1967) I. Commenting on a recent po...

The poet and translator Simon Solomon ( mon meilleur ami et meilleur adversaire ) The philosopher, says Zarathustra, must not only...

Cover of the paperback edition (Fourth Estate, 2015) I suppose, in many ways, I have quite a lot in common with Rod Liddle; we belo...

Paul Cadmus: What I Believe (1947-48) I have always had a certain amount of respect and affection for E. M. Forster. Primarily beca...

"There was a woman who loved her husband, but she could not live with him. The husband, on his side, was sincerely attached to his...

Nietzsche has some interesting things to teach us about the concept of friendship; not least of all when he insists on the import...

Blood is thicker than water, so they say. Which is true enough, but why should viscosity and a certain heavy stickiness be privileged o...