It matters how we live, and how we die. Not because of some religious injunction threatening hell, but because life’s a stage for learning. That accords with the “No-hiding theorem” of quantum ...

Further, he dismissed “the purblind rich” who despised him by declaring, “I welcome their hatred.” Likewise, Ronald Reagan never sought any kind of coalescence that included the Democratic ...

Is it simply purblind arrogance to believe that this could not be the case? After all, history has its lessons. Apparently invincible civilisations, however great their leadership had once been ...

That is not to claim that such violence does not happen and will not happen (a claim that would be purblind at best given recent events). It is to claim that the numbers, organization and ...

Even the most purblind politicians and commentators prepared to blame Israel for all ills in the Middle East must now concede that the greatest threat to peace in the region is Iran and its proxies.

But no one would know that for years. In the meantime, Mauch's line of reasoning, distinguished as it was by the most purblind logic, perfectly suited Cecil Rhodes, whose British South Africa ...

Why doesn't Ralph Leavis try replying to the letter I actually wrote instead of the one he thinks I wrote (Oxford Mail, August 25)? I get rather irritated at him and all those other purblind ...

No matter how old he gets, Ian Hislop retains the fearless satirical impulse of a twinkly-eyed schoolboy soothsayer whose sole task is lampooning the purblind pomposity, innate foolishness and ...

The one clear advantage Sri Lanka's armed forces had is air superiority. It should have been clear even to the purblind the LTTE would try to minimise, if not neutralise, that advantage. Just as they ...

At the same time, Phil Collins was committing a further crime against the critical consensus - he was piloting Brand X, purveyors of the most hellish hybrid known to purblind music scribes ...

Haig was not purblind, but open to technical and tactical innovation. Yet he was responsible for the massive casualties so disproportionate to the results achieved and for the near collapse of British ...