Press reports that Prince Harry has been cavorting merrily with nubile young ladies at a night club in Croatia – including a dunking in the…
Press reports that Prince Harry has been cavorting merrily with nubile young ladies at a night club in Croatia – including a dunking in the…
Tony Cascarino, a television commentator for Sky Sports, might have chosen a more thoughtful word than ‘holocaust’ to describe the poor performance of Arsenal full-back…
Why, in this land of common sense and tolerance, do we hate travellers? We do, apparently, so much so that even the United Nations, always…
Is something happening to my brain, I wonder? It’s not the onset of Alzheimer’s, I’m sure, but could it be something almost as insidious –…
Clicking my way through the movie channels yesterday evening, I came across that once infamous and timelessly fatuous 1963 cinematic epic, Cleopatra. I can’t remember…
Perhaps sadly, I’m finding it hard to get worked up into a lather of indignation because Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the…
English, we are often reminded, is a living language, always receptive to amended usage, new coinage and even modified pronunciation. Amen to all that, I…
In the scintillating, constantly-changing, tabloid-sponsored, obsession-inducing world of celebrity I’m about as tuned out as a cell phone in a coal mine. To be honest,…
A television news clip from Birmingham last night showed a mother and a male fellow citizen exchanging opinions about the cause of the riots. The…
What a relief, after a week of truly awful headlines, to pick up a newspaper and read that the country has managed to do something…