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Coronavirus discounts on my recent books – time for some good reading

Take advantage of the special discount available on my recent books from amazon Lion and Lamb, Brexit and British Moral duality 11% of Kindle edition 19% off Paperback edition   And 30% of ebook at University of Chicago press    From Midnight to Glorious Morning? India since independence 5% off Kindle edition   And 30% […]

Tory team withers as corona takes its toll

Asian Lite Boris Johnson is no Churchill, however much he would want to be. He started the emergency by continuing to perform like a pantomime music hall artist, a profession he is clearly suited for. There is one thing we can be certain of in this country. Whenever the country faces a crisis the spirt of […]

Tory Team Withers As Corona Takes Its Toll

Asian Lite Boris Johnson is no Churchill, however much he would want to be. He started the emergency by continuing to perform like a pantomime music hall artist, a profession he is clearly suited for. There is one thing we can be certain of in this country. Whenever the country faces a crisis the spirt of […]

My life in lockdown

Asian Lite Can we shed our blinkered Eurocentric view of the world and become truly global in our outlook? If we cannot then we will face many more such emergencies.  The way Coronavirus is changing our lives is quite astonishing. It extends from economics to walking. Now when I walk in the street and, as […]

My Life in Lockdown

Asian Lite Can we shed our blinkered Eurocentric view of the world and become truly global in our outlook? If we cannot then we will face many more such emergencies.  The way Coronavirus is changing our lives is quite astonishing. It extends from economics to walking. Now when I walk in the street and, as […]

Modi’s operandi

Letter to The Times Sir, Philip Collins’s hope (comment, Feb 28, and letter, Feb 29) that Narendra Modi could become a great leader of India has one problem: there is a contradiction at the heart of his government. Modi came to power riding two tigers, an economic one that, as he put it, would bring […]

Letter to the Times responding to Libby Purves comment piece on racism

The Times Sir, Libby Purves (“Obsession with racism is the new bigotry”, Jan 20) is right that our dialogue about racism has become counterproductive. It is absurd to shower the word racist like confetti every time a person’s race is identified. Despite living in this country for half a century I am often asked “Where […]

The British view of collaboration in the colonies

Letter to The Times Sir, David Aaronovitch’s excellent article raises the question of how the British treated collaboration in their colonies. Without massive Indian support, the British could never have ruled India but the supporters were never called collaborators but “loyalists.” This supported the British contention that India was not a country they had occupied […]

What Churchill and Attlee have to teach us? – review of new book by Leo McKinstry

Asian Lite  You would think there is not much more to say about Winston Churchill. During his life time he was a prolific writer and journalist, his writings puts to shade the journalistic output of our modern day Prime Minister and Churchill disciple, and he famously fulfilled his promise of making sure history treated him […]

Kashmir, Tories and Labour

Reform Review – Autumn/Winter 2019 Events in far away lands, as Neville Chamberlain famously put it during the Munich crisis, are not supposed to concern us. However, even in the midst of Brexit,  MPs have taken interest in events in one far away land. This was dramatically emphasised when Parliament reassembled on Tuesday September 3 after […]