Now, what was I going to write about for this edition of Rant? It is, I seem to recall, a very important topic, one that…

Could Donald Trump become president of the United States? Is such political dementia even remotely conceivable? Evidently so. Various polls have him leading the long…

Random Rants will not appear for ten days, as this writer and family are taking a short and in my case entirely unearned break in…

The weather in Britain has been unusually hot for several days, which may explain the madness by which many of our institutions appear to be…

What a shambles the world seems this morning. The Greek financial crisis rumbles on, the markets reacting with panic.  Three terrorist attacks, all inevitably claimed…

Metaphorically speaking, ducks seem to have been prominent in my conversations of late. “I think you’d better get your ducks in a row,” I was…

I am not by nature a paranoiac, but why am I suddenly receiving unsolicited e-mails about funeral expenses? Two came in today.  Last week, too,…

A couple of readers have asked why I rarely mention films these days.  The answer is simple: I seldom see any – at least not…

Sir Christopher Lee has died at the ripe old age of 93. Or has he? Could he be, as he was in the nine Dracula…

‘And God Created Woman.’ Or so we were reminded back in the 1950s by a saucy French film director named Roger Vadim, himself a God-like…