In any body politic there will be a group of powerful people who, if not in the inner circle of the president or prime minister, can win...

By one of those quirks of opportunity I was able to spend most of the morning of a Good Friday talking with Jose Saramago, that year's...

We were standing in Hiroshima looking at a stonewall. All there was to see was a shadow of a man. It had been etched into the wall at the...