Here’s a random selection of objectionable public figures I don’t wish to watch, hear or read about in 2015 but will almost certainly have to,…

The two main front-page stories in my newspaper this morning tell us something of the Human Condition, though I’m damned if I know what it…

Mandy Rice-Davies died today, aged 70, a nonentity who achieved lasting fame for a dismissive one-liner at a famous trial. The most banal entry in…

Is there anyone in America who wants to be President of the United  States?  Or, to put the question more contextually, is there anyone in…

My Annual Humiliation is confirmed today as, yet again, I have failed to be nominated to the Queen’s New Year’s Honours List. It’s not for…

How often it happens that hidden truths are exposed by stupid people: footballers and football managers – many of whom come across as so mentally…

I am truly astonished to learn, from the newspapers, and from callers on phone-in radio stations, that a significant number, perhaps even the majority, of…

We are a grandfather. Apologies for the plural, which echoes the late Margaret Thatcher, who would have said the same thing if she had been…

“Is the petty, adversarial nature of politics causing its own demise?” The first question on Question Time, the BBC political panel show, last night could…