The Times is a paper which is seldom found in any hands but those of the highly educated.

I was taken to a villa to meet Sabri al-Banna, known as ‘Abu Nidal’ (‘father of struggle’), who was at the time emerging as one of Yasser Arafat’s main enemies. The meeting began inauspiciously when...

So many of the professional foreign policy establishment, and so many of their hangers-on among the lumpen academics and journalists, had become worried by the frenzy and paranoia of the Nixonian Vietnam policy that consensus...

You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant.””We live in cynical times, Miss Cain.

This American system of ours’, he shouted, ‘call it Americanism, call it capitalism, call it what you like, gives to each and every one of us a great opportunity if only we seize it with...