India versus China: Reflections through an aeroplane window
Virgin Atlantic 301. I’m heading home. At Indira Ghandi Airport I purchased a copy of Peter Francopan’s The Silk Roads…
9 years ago
Victor Hill
Postcard from the Jaipur Literary Festival
Drat! Had I arrived but one day earlier I could have heard both the ubiquitous Stephen Fry and superstar French…
9 years ago
Postcard from Rajasthan
Monday, 18 January 2016, Mandawa, Rajasthan, India The headline news from Delhi this morning. Capital faces canine crisis: one dog…
9 years ago
2016: The Year of Living Dangerously
As seen in the January edition of Master Investor Magazine. 2016, The Year of the Monkey, will be a capricious,…
9 years ago
The History Boys vote Brexit
Finally, the groves of academe have awoken to the sound of gnashing teeth. An assembly of the most eminent British…
9 years ago
Memo to Mr Osborne: State Spending Is Still out of Control
I’m still at a loss to explain why in a healthy economy our GDP could be growing at between 2…
9 years ago
La France dans la merde
During this last trip to France for the New Year something really shocking happened. I was walking through a small…
9 years ago
War on Terror II: Kingdom and Republic on the Brink
Last month on these pages I explained how the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia emerged from the deserts of Arabia in…
9 years ago
Looking Through a Clear Glass of Gin: 36 Predictions for 2016
We asked Victor Hill for his 2016 predictions and, after a few gins, he came back with this: All…
9 years ago
The Star in the East
As Mr Cameron sits down to Christmas lunch at Chequers this year he will try to put aside his feelings…
9 years ago