England’s Rugby Football Union, proudly maintaining its recent record of pleasing nobody all the time, has offended New Zealand by announcing that England’s alternative strip…

 What is happening to Britain’s once revered ruling institutions?   At the rate we’re going, not a single one seems likely to avoid the infection of…

 Enough of the News of the World!  I’ll have you know I won a prize yesterday for another form of hacking.  I won it for…

 The death of a newspaper, even one of Rupert Murdoch’s tawdry rags, is always a sad occasion.  What people often say at the funerals of…

My late father was an avid reader of the News of the World, the British Sunday tabloid currently making headlines in a phone-hacking scandal.  “I…

I hereby extend to all my American friends my very best wishes on this Fourth of July holiday.  Sadly, I have not received a single greeting…

A television commentator in America named Mark Halperin is in trouble for saying, on a morning chat show called Morning Joe, that President Obama behaved…

 Today’s Daily Telegraph was rich in stories of the-world-is-going-mad genre.  Here are three of my favourites. A snake lover in Nottingham has died of a…

Now that the annual extravaganza at the All England Club is underway, commentators in various other fields will, no doubt, be reaching for excuses to…

Finally, after months and months of anguished deliberation, the people remaking that much loved British war classic, The Dam Busters, have come up with a…