Good question. She would have been 3 years and 2 months old. I'm not sure 'kids go free' was such a big thing back then, but there again the Kennedys were modernisers par excellence. (View Post)

Nancy Pelosi attended JFK's inauguration - almost certainly the last person alive who did. She may have met a few civil war windows there - they were always on the invitation list as a unifying … (View Post)

We should be trying to win the hearts and minds of the Russian people - not polarising the situation by cutting them off. Most of them want to be part of the connected, civilised world - even the oli… (View Post)

The Russians are quite familiar with MI6 officers who have been to Cambridge. (View Post)

A lot of people are displacing their anxiety about the war by projecting it onto refugees. But the refugees have already reached a place of safety if they are now in Poland, Hungary, Germany or Franc… (View Post)