The Congressional Republicans, like Thelma and Louise, seem determined to drive the battered American economic jalopy over the so-called fiscal cliff. I’ve no idea…
Month: December 2012
From time to time, usually in the depths of a dank English Winter, and at risk of stretching M’s incredulity to anxiety for my mental…
What a memorable year 2012 has been for this grand old country of ours. Who says Britain is going to the dogs? A happy and…
America’s debate about the right of its citizens to bear arms will be turned up to full volume following the Newtown school massacre, but the…
“All’s well that ends well,” wrote the Bard, and I take comfort from the sentiment as another year ends. The last day of the year…
The ‘Scouting Movement’ – as it likes to be known – is in the news today, and for once it’s not because some nerdy, middle-aged…
Christmas cards are arriving thick and fast now, adding to the jolly seasonal custom of guessing who they’re from. “Gary and Peggy?” “You know who…
The season to be jolly – which invariably induces in my soul precisely the opposite mood – will kick off this afternoon, in our household,…
The hounding of the two Australian radio station presenters involved in the Duchess of Cornwall telephone hoax by a pack of ether-dwelling scavengers brings to…