Do you know what a pangolin is? I had only the vaguest idea until a few days ago, when I read a newspaper report that…
Do you know what a pangolin is? I had only the vaguest idea until a few days ago, when I read a newspaper report that…
A fly on the wall in the office of the Communications Secretary this morning may have heard some choice words this morning. Many of them…
The bobby, that stalwart and beloved emblem of the British national character, is on the way out. Fewer and fewer policemen are now wearing those…
Beware of Greeks bearing debts. Europe is so being warned by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who insists that the new left-wing Greek government fulfil…
It must seem as if your favourite ‘Rantor’ has gone AWOL. Nothing in life is quite that simple. As JJ would designate his wife, M, she…
In political terms, if not in other respects, Britain is now an asylum in which the inmates have taken over and are running rampant through…
“The road to health is paved with good intestines.” I can now chuckle over that old medical quip as, after eight days in hospital, my…
Were you moved by the demonstration of European unity in Paris following the terrorist attacks? I wasn’t, because I’m innately suspicious of such public outpourings…
Here’s a hypothetical case, in both facts and the predicted public response to them. Let’s suppose that a convicted rapist is released from prison. …
Inflation is low and the oil price is plunging. Good news, eh? Well you would think so. We always used to think so. Not that…