“We are cleared for take-off,” airline pilots like to announce when the plane finally reaches the front of the departure queue. Passengers who have been…
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‘The land of the free and the home of the brave.’ That is the America we all, Americans and foreigners alike, once admired. It is…
So, now we know. Donald Trump wants rapprochement with Kim Jong-un so that the Trump Organization can build condominiums in North Korea. The…
Name a world leader Donald Trump has not fallen out with. I can’t. Benjamin Netanyahu, I suppose, because he and Trump share similar feelings of…
A few ‘Rants’ ago I alluded to Britain being a country increasingly ill at ease with itself, and some overseas readers have asked why this…
Bravo, Ireland! A country once dominated, one might now safely say oppressed, by the Church of Rome keeps demonstrating that it has come of age. …
On how many levels is it possible to find a person unattractive? I have no idea, but just for the hell of it I’ve been…
Relaxed after returning from a delightful few days in Amsterdam I thought I would write about something on which I have no strong opinions –…
Donald Trump has done it again – ripped up a treaty signed not only by the United States but by a dozen…
What did we Brits do to deserve this government? Well, for a start, we voted for Brexit. If we had voted otherwise, then…