THE BOOK is out.  You know the one I mean, the one we’ve been waiting for all summer.  Now, finally, the long-promised bombshells have been…

I’ve been out of the country for four days and quite a bit seems to have happened while I was gone, at least in political…

A minister of the Crown resigned last week after sending a ‘selfie’ of his penis to an attractive young woman who, posing as a worker…

Whenever a British government announces that ‘we are going to war’ in the Middle East – this time to bomb Islamic State, or whatever it…

How to stay optimistic about the future of mankind is a problem I face largely by trying to ignore it.  The facts are too stark…

The Internet has changed ancient protocols of commerce in hundreds, perhaps thousands of industries, and it changes more by the week.   Even I, a stickler…

Let’s face it.  Whichever way the vote goes next week, the English have all along got it wrong about their Northern neighbour.  And I think…

What happened to the silly season?  The dog days of August are supposed to be the time when deputy newspaper editors scrabble around for copy…

What fun!  We’re all going to get the chance to play detectives.  I’ve always fancied myself as a sleuth.  Who shall I be, I wonder? …