The First Law of Journalism: to confirm existing prejudice, rather than contradict it.

Pose a political threat to Business As Usual, and sooner or later, mostly sooner, someone will try to kill you.

Be careful about Burma. Most people cannot remember whether it was Siam and has become Thailand, or whether it is now part of Malaysia and should be called Sri Lanka.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

Can it be that a generation of school children is growing up heedless of the simple truth that the Pentagon's centrla role for many years has been to buy weapons that don't work, against threats that don't exist?

Despair is the central part of the psychopathology. For the handmaiden of gossip is treachery.

Nothing can inspire religious duty or animation but religion.