Charles Ellingworth

The papers have been full of the promotion of Bob Diamond to the top job at Barclays. I am agnostic as to whether it is a good thing or not....

3rd October  Tunis A long day. A long week. I left Somerset on Monday morning in dreary weather at 7am, just after dawn.. Half way down the ...

Editors should be the heroes of readers and authors. They save authors from themselves and readers from authors’ egos. Consider: when did yo...

I have just finished Peter Mandelson’s memoir. It suffers from neither being a good diary – immediate, waspish and unselfconscious - like th...

I never saw it. All I heard was the shout of the guide, ‘Avalanche! Avalanche’ - and I knew it must involve me. I didn’t even look but dropp...

All of us have a dominating cultural or global event that shapes our way of thinking about the world. For my parents it was the war – even t...

In a today’s clear-out of a storage room I came across my collection of vinyl records – the primary recipient of, initially, my pocket money...