Many years ago I worked for a Fleet Street news agency, Reuters, and one particular report that seemed to come in ’over the wires’ with…
Many years ago I worked for a Fleet Street news agency, Reuters, and one particular report that seemed to come in ’over the wires’ with…
What do you mean, I’m going deaf? Oh, am I going to phone Jeff? Sorry. Yes, I’ll call him …. I misheard you. I thought…
As an admirer of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age novel The Great Gatsby, I can’t say I’m looking forward to the latest film version. For…
A friend has taken me to task for bothering to write about Gwyneth Paltrow. How could I stoop so low as to contribute to the…
Now that Margaret Hilda Roberts has been safely consigned to meet her maker (I hope He’s ready) we can finally get back to reading about…
Admirers of Margaret Thatcher tend to fall into two classes: those who admire her unconditionally and those who admire her through gritted teeth. I fall…
Does Stephen Hawking indulge an occasional Twitter? What about, say, Jonathan Miller; or Alan Bennett, Richard Dawkins and Melvyn Bragg? Does the Chancellor of Oxford…
If you’re not living in Britain you almost certainly won’t have heard of Mrs. Ann Barnes or Miss Paris Brown, and in a couple of…
It all went off brilliantly. Of course it did; the Brits can organize this kind of occasion in their sleep, funerals especially so. Margaret Thatcher…