Why are Americans so sure President Obama can’t get re-elected? When I look at how the Republican Party is going about retaking the White House…

The doctrine of Splendid Isolation is alive and well in this island. Amateur historians will remember that the phrase, dating back to early Victorian times,…

 Believe me, I’m all for protests and demonstrations.  But why nowadays do they have to last for months?  There was a time when protesters marched…

 “Steve is certainly no racist,” was the extraordinarily benevolent verdict of Tiger Woods, the golfer, referring to his former caddie Steve Williams, who had called…

There was a time when public figures caught misbehaving, or having failed in their appointed mission, felt obliged to resign, promptly and quietly, in the…

The Occupy Wall Street protest movement seems to be on the move. From the downtown financial district in New York, where they started, anti-capitalist demonstrations…

 So, those disrespectful Aussies are at it again. Prime Minister Julia Gillard made headlines this week, at least in the British press, when she failed…

 One of his mottoes was “Stay hungry, stay foolish.  Hungry and foolish is how he himself stayed, right up to the end of a relatively…

England’s elimination from the Rugby World Cup is an undisguised blessing – not least for the host country, New Zealand.  The tournament organizers must be…