Rarely do I think about death, but soon we may have to. A couple of scientists at Lancaster University claim to have hit upon a…

Prominent men treating women badly has a long and ghastly history and, based on the current outbreak of bashings and ‘sextings’ seems assured of an…

August is a month for harvesting and holidays and this year, if you’re a senior figure in the Labour Party, for hatching plots. While Ed…

Now we know. Londoners have been given a sneak preview of the city, and indeed country, that Mayor Boris Johnson and thousands of his hero-worshipping…

The novels of Elmore Leonard, the American novelist who has just died aged 87, are an acquired taste, but an awful lot of people have…

“I would agree with you,” a business associate said to me yesterday, responding to some pronouncement I’d made.  “What are the conditions under which you…

The glossy brochure in glorious colour was printed and published last week.  It did our house full justice.  Well, at any rate I thought so. …

Another triumphant weekend for British sport; what on earth is going on?  After half a century of watching and suffering as gallant Brits, heroically and…

“Any news yet?” my wife enquired, having noticed me twiddling with my mobile phone, as she urged our rented car through the interminable forests and…

At first we thought we were the victims of a strike by defecating birds.  We were strolling in a waterfront park in Stockholm, a city…