Mick Philpott, convicted yesterday of killing six of his children, is by no means the worst multiple killer in recent history, but he’s one of…
Month: March 2013
Britain’s teaching unions evidently despise the Education Secretary Michael Gove, and in particular his proposals for a new National Curriculum, to which my instinctive reaction…
What is hate crime? I thought I knew. My interpretation was that it was any criminal act, typically one involving assault, committed against a person…
Something extraordinary has happened in England this morning: the sun is out. After five months of almost unremitting gloom and frigidity, the weather today resembles…
“It is, I think, a decent custom which prescribes that we shall say nothing but good about the dead.” So wrote Alistair Cooke, in April…
It has been a truly terrible month in England on three counts: the economy, the weather and sport. This is what happens whenever I leave…
Arguments for and against same-sex marriage, currently being heard in the United States Supreme Court, seem to have reduced the esteemed justices to a state…
Tucson, Arizona greets us with the same ‘chilly’ weather we’ve just suffered in Florida. “It’s not even 80 degrees out there,” the man at the…
Crossing the California state line, the first place in which we set foot is Jacumba, a virtual ghost town located a couple of miles off…