Sports can unify the Iraqi people - no Sunnis no Shiites just sport for the country.
Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
First let me report that the art in the Barnes Collection has never looked better. My trips to the old Barnes were always amazing but except on the sunniest days you could barely see the art. The building always felt pushed beyond its capacity.
I came to live in Shepperton in 1960. I thought: the future isn't in the metropolitan areas of London. I want to go out to the new suburbs near the film studios. This was the England I wanted to write about because this was the new world that was emerging.