Global shortage of student accommodation is creating a new asset class

“The countryside is turning as lush as a plum…..There’s a quality here that I haven’t known for very long. The 20th century seems very remote.” So wrote John Steinbeck in 1959 when he was living in Somerset and researching his book on King Arthur. Later, in an interview, he said that he had been happier […]

Saul Lipetz recalls the electricity of Euro 2008.

The Labour Party leadership contest is in full swing. But can anyone tell what’s going on?

A difficult season for Arsenal is drawing to an end – in the circumstances it seems harder than ever to defend the manager, but who are his fiercest critics – and what are the alternatives?

The pitchfork of protestation is multi-pronged. But one of the spikes must be more than a spur.

An odd combination of events took me to Egypt’s Red Sea Riviera last week. One was a desire to escape the grey skies and rain storms of an English January and spend a week in the sun which is after all guaranteed in Egypt, is it not? The second was to find out why the […]

My personal choice for the most significant penalty involving Arsenal in recent (-ish) times

A look at how the current trend of Islamophobia in the United States has many precedents, and how it is in the interests of politicians to fan the flames of bigotry.

Legendary singer still inspires with songs that never die