M and I dined Saturday evening with friends of long-standing, Peter and Jenny, and the table conversation at one point turned, as it so often…

Reminding us that Britain’s present severe cold snap could be far more severe than it has been so far, the BBC has just aired an…

Chris Huhne may be a high-profile idiot, but he’s not the first of his kind, and it’s as certain as the sun coming up tomorrow…

So, now it’s official, if far from clear. We want to stay in the European Union, David Cameron declares, but only on our own, unique…

Should we care that the High Street, as we’ve always known it, is disappearing?   The answer, I feel, lies in the subsidiary clause.  ‘As we’ve…

The opening scene of Steven Spielberg’s Lincoln shows Union and Confederate soldiers in bloody hand-to-hand combat, up to their knees in mud and water, and…

When is cheating not cheating? The answer apparently is when the act of cheating is qualified by a) what the commercial stakes are, and b)…

The film version of that monumental stage hit Les Miserables didn’t really stand a chance with me.  I’m just not that keen on sung-through musicals,…

Alex Jones is clearly a buffoon, but is he a dangerous buffoon?     Jones is the syndicated radio host from Austin, Texas, who recently…

Why are we British, or evidently most of us, still so viscerally hostile to the idea of the European Union?  Is it the economic mess…