The weather in England has been frightful, the country seems to be going to the proverbial dogs, and Brexit seems to be gathering a head…

I have received a couple of (mild) reproofs for attaching too much importance to the Australian cricket cheating scandal – any importance at all, really. …

“It’s just not cricket, old boy!” Englishmen have always used that mild reproof to describe behaviour that falls below accepted standards, the phrase itself a…

Some headlines are so redundant as to sound positively silly.   A prime example of this is the one that reads, ‘Putin secures record win in…

There was a time, now in the long-distant and by some in these islands much-mourned past, when a roar from the British lion caused the…

What are we to make of the impending summit meeting between Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump?   Or, if you prefer, between Little Rocket Man and…

The White House, by all accounts, is in chaos.  Some of the accounts emanate from people who work there.  It has been like that, of…

Mad March has arrived and, as if on cue, Emma and The Beast are on their way to a district near you. That may sound…