World Obama declines to run for president, is replaced by Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin narrowly defeats Clinton in first all-female US presidential election. Sarkozy loses…
World Obama declines to run for president, is replaced by Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin narrowly defeats Clinton in first all-female US presidential election. Sarkozy loses…
Be thankful for large mercies, I say, the smaller ones will take care of themselves. As another year winds down, I am happy to deploy…
Britain is a liberal, tolerant, sensible and largely law-abiding country, and I’m thankful for that, but its legal establishment and I part company on the…
Watching rugby, live, the day after the Christmas madness ought to be a relaxing diversion. It isn’t if the match is played at Twickenham. A…
Nearly there! I mean the end of the Season of Goodwill. Christmas Day, celebrated with our family’s customary guilt-ridden orgy of gift-giving and other forms…
1 My wife Martha remains beautiful 2 Speaker John Bercow resigns after parliamentary scandal, Sally stays with him. 3 All one-day cricket fixtures are cancelled…
I’ve just been talked into serving as chairman of a local charity, the Esher Neighbourhood Fund, and I’m already starting to fret. Dominic Raab, Conservative…
News that North Korea’s long-standing ruler Kim Jong-il has died left western political analysts confused about what might happen next. Little wonder. As just about…
Mark Zuckerberg is a computer genius, his Facebook enterprise a phenomenon. Both founder and company are emerging as shapers of the century, alongside Bill Gates…
I am happy, and I might add privileged, to count myself a resident of Esher, a well-heeled, well-bred suburban enclave in the ‘stockbroker county’ of…