I'd like to be able to understand this column by Ben Macintyre better than I do. On the face of it, that isn't so hard. It's part of the background music to the Chilcot inquiry, a music of voices harmonizing on the theme of how wrong the Iraq war was....

If I've never mentioned Bela Fleck here before, it's an oversight. This is him with New Grass Revival, playing 'County Clare'. There's a transition worth waiting for shortly after 2 minutes in.

Roland Dodds was born in Brawley, California. He is currently a graduate student focusing on international politics at the University of Edinburgh, but was previously a teacher in California and Korea. He once fancied himself a musician and toured...

Amy Alkon argues that people who either make too much noise or let their children make too much noise in spaces that we all have to share are not just bothering us, they're stealing from us - 'stealing our attention, our time and our peace of mind'. I...

A year ago today I received an early morning email from a friend. His son, trying to escape from his hotel room at the Taj in Mumbai, with terrorists outside his door looking for Brits to execute, had fallen 50 feet and was in intensive care. A year...