A friend called yesterday to tell me that one of my former wives (the second) had died after a brief unspecified illness. She was seventy-six. …
Month: March 2015
In my ‘rant’ of March 26 I quote David Cameron answering ‘yes’ to a question from Ed Miliband. I quoted the answer correctly but got…
Did she or didn’t she? That is the question being asked, if not along the corridors of Westminster this gloriously sunny Easter bank holiday Monday,…
Politicians of all parties in Britain talk about ‘creating jobs’ as if doing so meant nothing more than waving a magic wand, or perhaps offering…
A lifetime spent in inexplicable good health left me ill-prepared for my recent medical setback. I feel obliged to regale you with the morbid details,…
One of the minor consequences of a period of enforced inactivity (the result of recent medical problems, mine and M’s, both now resolved) is getting…
Say no more, Nicola. Preferably ever. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, as quoted in the Guardian newspaper today, apparently thinks Harold Wilson was Britain’s greatest…
It is, evidently, Society’s fault that three Muslim schoolgirls from East London have been led astray. The collective ‘we’ of society – their school teachers,…
The big news in Britain today is that a leading politician gave a straight answer to a direct question, an event considered sufficiently rare as…
“Why do we keep coming back to this awful place?” The question is one that members of our little gang of Fleet Street veterans take…