A regular reader of ‘Random Rants’ has complained that the title of my occasional column is misleading, on the grounds that I seldom actually rant. …

I suppose it is a measure of our tolerance for what my English teacher used to call ‘unsavoury language’ that a senior parliamentary figure is…

Jimmy Savile was no doubt the predatory creep everyone now says he was.  But I wonder whether the howls of retrospective disgust from female columnists…

We should be grateful this morning to Europe’s golfers for a singular reason entirely unrelated to sport: by snatching a dramatic last-gasp Ryder Cup victory…

This column will not be refreshed for a couple of weeks.  Tomorrow, M and I are off to the United States, where access to a…

After spending two weeks in the United States, I no longer doubt that President Barack Obama will be re-elected. Whether he deserves a second term…

What happened to the art of film criticism?  It was a question I fell to pondering last week, after a discussion at a dinner party…