Of course I didn’t stay up to watch the Oscars.  What kind of a person do you take me for?  Oscars?  Humbug! I indulged instead,…

Another official enquiry, another definitive report. There can be no doubting it: Britain leads the world in Enquiries and Reports.  It always has and it…

Are you an inny or an outy? The question used to be asked of navels.  Nowadays it’s more likely to be about Britain’s status in…

My newspaper this morning reports that Britain is a nation of moaners.  To which my unspoken response was, “Tell us something we don’t know”. This…

What are we to make of Sir Bernard Hogan-Howe, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner?   What are we to make of the Met itself, for that matter?…

As predicted in this space a few weeks ago, the Republican voters of Iowa have rejected Trump.  Not by much, admittedly, but he was as…