An Absolute Shower   “An absolute shower!” would have been Terry-Thomas’s verdict.  Mine was more graphic while reading the sports pages of this morning’s newspapers.…

The sympathy that I once felt for Mr. and Mrs. Dowler, whose daughter Milly was murdered a few years ago, and whose mobile phone was…

Bad sight of the week so far is a newspaper picture of Mary Tyler Moore attending the opening of something or other in New York. …

 Tomorrow, September 17, brings the anniversary of the opening of the battle in 1944 for the road crossing across the Rhine at Arnhem, celebrated –…

 I often wonder what’s going on in this country.  I mean, what’s really going on. In one section of today’s paper I glumly absorb the…

 Is stamp collecting dead? I’m wondering only because it is a dreary day. I’m recovering from a late night, and I can’t thing of a…

What is the Real World? I ponder this question in the context of that increasingly popular put-down, “You should spend some time in the real…

Today is not September 11, it is 9/11.  The tenth anniversary of The Event, to be exact. This weekend, on hundreds of programmes on dozens…