Will the new year, twenty-four hours away as I write, possibly be as bad, or, depending on your point of view, better than its predecessor?…
Will the new year, twenty-four hours away as I write, possibly be as bad, or, depending on your point of view, better than its predecessor?…
January Trump’s inaugural speech, promising a ‘tough’ new American foreign policy stance, hints at recognising Taiwan. The Chinese government expresses outrage and threatens retaliatory moves…
Call me a curmudgeon – I’ve been called much worse – but I have always loathed having my photograph taken. Pity me now, then, as…
Political events made 2016 a year that will remain engraved in the memory for decades to come. In Britain, as in the United States, half…
Donald Trump has received a call from Sarah Palin, former Governor of Alaska, according to sources close to the President-elect. A transcript has been leaked…
Another famous physical piece of Old London is about to disappear, it seems. The Whitechapel Bell Foundry is to close, its owners have announced. The…
Jolly decent, I say, of Fidel Castro to kick the bucket and provide a welcome distraction from the grim prospects for Trump and Brexit. Well…
Occasionally there appears on television an old film that revives long forgotten childhood memories of ‘going to the pictures’, as we used to call it…
For once I find myself more or less in agreement with the right-wing columnists whom I normally dismiss as nutters. What upset them was that…
A couple of readers of liberal persuasion have accused me of the ultimate political offence of being insufficiently outraged by the election of Donald Trump…