Originally published in the Birmingham Post There was a time when Birmingham was undisputedly the nation’s second city. Nowadays a host of other cities are nipping at its heels. Greater Manchester is now by far the most autonomous and powerful city outside London, it also boasts the biggest airport. Leeds is the biggest provincial hub [...]
Conrad Black’s weighty new biography of Richard Nixon portrays him as a “mighty and mythic” figure who made a “dignified exit” after being unfairly hounded from office—a code it’s little trouble to break Conrad Black, writing in what he describes as “very distracting circumstances, as I prepared at the same time to deal with serious [...]