Israel's occupation of Palestine, Islamophobia, and disastrous Western interventions all create grievance. But no injustice can excuse or explain the rise of brutal Islamicists

We now see hereditary peers as an anachronism, but refuse to see the same applies to the Royals

The Tories are on course to diminish, cut-and-paste, and abridge our multi-layered, unpredictable, audacious, turbulent, incredible national saga.

It is at these times of utter disillusionment that we most need to champion the best of the NHS

The celebrated presenter of The Great British Bake-Off has made clear her aversion to the victories chalked up by feminism. She clearly doesn't know much about it

Those who were caught up in the Algerian shootout were victims of pitiless terrorists. In that Cameron is right. But distorted Western values made them vulnerable targets

Depressingly, unlike in India today, British Asians and Arabs will not confront community secrets and lies

There are times when daughters and mothers just can't get along, and aunts have to step into the breach

The pressies were the usual nice and familiar stuff, except for that purple, satiny garment from my husband with a confusing number of straps and no instructions.

The poor are scorned while this religious festival turns into a feast of consumerism