Robin Ashenden

Viewed three decades on, his two election wins seem one of US history’s happier twists

I broke the cardinal rule of backpacking

Lent was designed to be a time of prayer and reflection, of turning inwards and away from the flesh

The opposition leader’s life — whatever its occasional missteps — was a model of self-sacrificing courage

Russia’s ‘Red Ripper’ Andrei Chikatilo was convicted of fifty-two murders in 1992