Barbara Amiel

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

In a free world there is, alas, more common crime than in a dictatorial system.

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several read more

Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic read more

I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, read more

Among the barbarians as well is the People's Republic of China with a gulag all of its own - far, far more sophisticated than the Russians.

But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the read more

But to be frank and I think probably to the relief of many of you, I am withdrawing from the speaking circuit. It has caught up with me.