What a shambles the world seems this morning. The Greek financial crisis rumbles on, the markets reacting with panic.  Three terrorist attacks, all inevitably claimed…

Metaphorically speaking, ducks seem to have been prominent in my conversations of late. “I think you’d better get your ducks in a row,” I was…

I am not by nature a paranoiac, but why am I suddenly receiving unsolicited e-mails about funeral expenses? Two came in today.  Last week, too,…

A couple of readers have asked why I rarely mention films these days.  The answer is simple: I seldom see any – at least not…

Sir Christopher Lee has died at the ripe old age of 93. Or has he? Could he be, as he was in the nine Dracula…

‘And God Created Woman.’ Or so we were reminded back in the 1950s by a saucy French film director named Roger Vadim, himself a God-like…