Lady Thatcher's death has become its own rolling news event, with wall-to-wall coverage in the days leading up to her funeral revealing the sometimes still bitter division in opinions about her premiership. Looking to the future however, one may also ask whether her indomitable style of leadership would get any...

David Miliband's appointment as head of the International Rescue Committee is a huge tribute to him, his talent and the regard with which he is held worldwide. It's also the fulfilment of a personal debt.

The IRC works with people in some of the most desperate circumstances in the...

As we get closer to the Olympics in 2012, the promised legacy will come under increasing scrutiny.

Yesterday, BOA Chairman Colin Moynihan raised worries that many others involved in school sport are telling me; that the promise we made in Singapore to inspire a new generation of...

The most compelling description of the emotional deficit that too many young people experience in Britain today was provided by two gang members I met just after the riots. Their first feelings of love, value and identity, they told me, came when they felt part of their gang. It gave...