Journalism, Harold Evans once wrote, is a predatory profession.  He’s right, and that is why Prince Harry’s recent nocturnal exploits in Las Vegas have stirred…

Neil, an American friend, and I recently struggled over dinner to come up with our personal lists of ten-best films.  The first difficulty was definition. …

What’s love got to do with it? Everything, says Ann Romney, wife of Mitt, the Republican nominee for the presidency. “I want to talk about…

Like those poor exasperated nuns in The Sound of Music, faced with solving a problem called Maria, the managers of England’s cricket team must find…

What are we to make of the phenomenal success of Fifty Shades of Grey?   The answer is, in a word, nothing.  Well, nothing beyond the…

… as the late Frankie Howerd might have said.  Apparently I have a new ‘follower’ on twitter.  I know this because I received an email…

Will someone kindly explain to me what’s really going on in the Julian Assange affair?  For reasons related to an age-related declining attention span, I…

So, now, in pictures of a naked prince of the realm, we see the pernicious effects of Leveson.   His Lordship’s recent enquiry into telephone…