Oxford Street, London’s main shopping thoroughfare, was closed to traffic yesterday because vast throngs of shoppers, spilling off the pavement into the street, were in…

Britain’s profound antipathy to the European Union has boiled to the surface over the past twenty-four hours.  It is not a pretty sight, this bubbling…

I read this morning that the mother of the youth acquitted of charges of swearing at a policeman has defended her son, claiming that the…

If Rob Andrew had been a crewman on the Titanic I feel confident that he would have been among the few who secured a seat…

 British Airways used to proclaim itself the world’s favourite airline, but for me it was always Pan Am that made the going great, as its…

Had enough of Titanic yet? In this centennial year of the disaster, the quest for what the relatives of victims of unexplained deaths call ‘closure’…

 “Crisis?  What Crisis?” Prime Minister James Callaghan is supposed to have uttered those or similar words at the height of Britain’s economic troubles in the…

Reunions, I’m told, can be fun.  Most of them, in my experience, are not. Last week, against my better judgement, I went to a company…

The British public is about to be empowered in an exciting new way.  I can’t wait. This frisson of expectation stems from news that the…

Is this country, which we once revered – perhaps more in hope than expectation – as an oasis of sanity in a mad world, itself…