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An email from Cactus Kate informs me that someone I have never heard of called Richard Henry has an online “men’s magazine” called Get Frank...

  I have been in Dubai, living in luxury – did I mention that yet? That’s me above right on the MV Moonlight , last Sunday (photo courtesy o...

The Armani Hotel in Dubai – in the world’s tallest building, the 828-metre Burj Khalifa – serves an excellent black truffle risotto. And th...

No blogging for a few days because this evening I fly to the Middle East for a week. What to read on the plane? I have briefing papers for t...

The 25th in this occasional series of reprints from Quote Unquote the magazine is from the September 1996 issue. It is an interview with t...

This is for anyone who has had a wife. His own, I mean, not someone else’s.

Mona Eltahawy , an Egyptian-born columnist and public speaker on Arab and Muslim issues, responds in the Toronto Star to Saudia Arabia ge...

Chad Taylor has lead in his pencil and he   likes The Social Network : If TV, as someone once said, is about people walking in and out of ...

Last week’s Economist had a special report on smart systems and, inter alia, the enormous quantity of information generated:  Estimates by...

Google’s algorithm placed this blog at the top of the list of search results for the query “Oh my god ! My mother was playmat”, well ahead o...