The people in charge of my local train service seem to think they are running an airline, judging by the tiresome and ever-expanding solicitous welcome…

  Try as I might, I can’t get terribly excited about the current and continuing controversy over the issue of trans-gender athletes competing in women’s…

Did President Donald Trump really ‘walk out’ of the Hanoi summit with Kim Jong-un, reportedly forgoing one last dinner, simply in order to deflect attention…

“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” the historian and constitutionalist Walter Bagehot famously wrote of the monarchy. A great deal of daylight is…

I think those residents of the Normandy village of Ver-sur-Mer who are objecting to a proposed memorial to the 22,442 British soldiers who died during…

What to do with Shamima Begum? The question dominates the front pages of today’s newspapers. Begum, I should explain, is a British-born Muslim who as…

The State of the Union speech is a unique American political tradition. The rest of us should be grateful that it is. Unique, I mean.…

As much as I despise Donald Trump and all his nefarious works, the Divided America that commentators bewail daily, and which may yet threaten his…

I wrote the following piece for a trade publication, but thought it timely enough to qualify as a ‘Rant’. I used to work as a…

It was jolly decent, even brave, of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband, to try to divert our attention from Brexit by pranging his car. A…