The Morose Maestro
Leonard Cohen has been mourning his 80th birthday with a new album, Popular Problems. At 80, Mr Cohen should have come to terms with his problems but he seems unable to r
Not Tonight, Sweetheart
The annual conferences of the main political parties have ended. To make up for Ed Miliband's dismal performance, the Observer has come up with a new finding; the "r
Not Tonight, Sweetheart
The annual conferences of the main political parties have ended. To make up for Ed Miliband's dismal performance, the Observer has come up with a new finding; the "r
Not Tonight, Sweetheart
The annual conferences of the main political parties have ended. To make up for Ed Miliband's dismal performance, the Observer has come up with a new finding; the "r
Private InquiriesThe Lib Dems have long wished to abolish the House of Lords. In elevating Christopher Rennard to the peerage they very nearly succeeded, for every time his ennobled posterior descends
First there was the internet, then the "smart phone". And now, within a decade, commercial unmanned drones will fill the skies. The Times reports that in a new technological explosion, the "detect and
The Sistine Chapel is the most famous — and instantly recognisable — symbol of the Roman Catholic Church. It is here, under the magnificent frescos of Michelangelo, that Popes have been elected fo
Superannuated European politicians traditionally slide into well earned obscurity. But former German Chancellor, Helmut Kohl, has been jolted out of irrelevance by a new book, which portrays the famou
The US government is reviewing the $2 billion sale of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria hotel to a Chinese corporation amid fears that Beijing will spy on the US ambassador to the United Nations whose
The head of the Churchill family and Winston Churchill's godson, the 11th Duke of Marlborough, has died at the age of 88. John George Vanderbilt Henry Spencer-Churchill was the owner of Britain's most