Season’s Greetings A growing number of Christmas cards we receive these days come with an enclosed letter reviewing the kind of year the sender has…

Now boys, who started the First World War? Please, Sir, it was the Germans.  They invaded Belgium. Quite right Higginbottom, well done. I seem to…

England cricket fans, this writer among them, are wandering around in a discombobulated trance asking that very question.  Nobody has yet come up with a…

The French may no longer be imbued with the romantic flair for which they were once justly renowned but at least they seem as adept…

Call me unworldly but until today I had never heard of La Quenelle, a ‘salute’ that involves placing the left hand on the right shoulder…