Many Brits may be fuming over their toast and marmalade this morning while ogling newspaper pictures of Presidents Trump and Macron and their…

Much as I hate to say it, Donald Trump may be playing a winning hand in foreign policy.  His two trump cards, as it were,…

  Are you ready for a Middle East war?  Should be fun, don’t you think, the first war in history to be started via social…

The erratic and unpredictable behaviour of the occupant of the White House may be unprecedented but it has duly found slavish imitators among the denizens…

For one brief shining moment of relief I thought I was off the hook.  Pope Francis apparently declared last week, in an informal interview, that…

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…