Just think of how the decisions that will bear down most immediately on an incoming Labour government will be less about changing Britain than responding to an external and fast-moving set of circumstances over which they have only limited control, with which any party in power would have to deal, and of which no potential [...]

The game of rugby now finds itself in a strange position. On the one hand, the laws themselves remain as complicated as they ever were, in some respects more so. But, on the other hand, players, administrators and referees are all in their different ways trying to make the game more flowing, more watchable, more [...]

Obviously, we’d like him to step into the car and be on the pace straight away, but he’s not and it’s something he’s got to work out. I could hardly imagine that he believes that was a particularly great performance.”This time last year, both Williams drivers were the class of the field. Now McLaren- Mercedes [...]

A Zelig of the counter- culture, Braun might have copyrighted the phrase “Been there, done that”. Whilst he had lived everywhere and seemingly met, interviewed or cohabited with every famous figure of the late 20th century, he also had specific claims to fame.
The Beatles penned “Paperback Writer” about him, he was Roman Polanski’s companion and [...]

The Government is always careful to exclude unidentifiable public expenditure from its statistics, which invariably favours England. The statistics which Michael Forsyth and the Government use (and abuse) conceal as much as they reveal.LINDA MACNISHForres, Moray. Wedded bliss
Sir: Petronella Wyatt (“Marriage? No, I’d rather live”, 28 March) lists among her reasons for wishing [...]

It is the French parliament which is now reconsidering whether Israel should still be given special trading status with the EU.Perhaps what is needed is a closer realisation of what the Middle East – and the north African nations, as well – mean to Europe. America has identified national interests in the Middle East; cynics [...]