I write to you just before leaving for the Queen’s Garden Party at Buckingham Palace. And with the noise around British Sovereignty, Immigration, Europe and the new Mayor - it’s timely. As Baroness Warsi congratulated, in her words, the Pakistani...

Let me tell you the story of a British Indian grandmother. She was born in India, lived in Kenya then moved to the UK in the late 1960s. She was an unassuming lady. At a recent election, at around 2145, just before the polling booths were about...

Over the past fortnight I have visited the three most important Democracies in the world – US (as it prepares for an election), UK of course, and now in India (the largest). What do you find in such close examination? Something startling.

“It is nothing short of a miracle…which has called men from the uttermost ends of the earth… and which has caused human beings to do the most incalculable, improvident and, from a narrow point of view, profitless things.” This was Winston Churchill...



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