The big political news of the week (if only for those on this side of the Atlantic who find party politics interesting) is that Jeremy…

Who won? In my book, for what it’s worth, Clinton took the debate hands down, but that leads to the next question. Does it matter?…

Yesterday I came across the following bizarre piece in a newspaper. “Two of the Catholic Church’s expert exorcists in Britain have warned that a fascination…

John and Martha Jessop, the couple widely known in celebrity circles as JoMa, announced today that they would be staying married. A spokesperson for the…

A brief item in my newspaper today perhaps sums up the lunacy of the witless fervour of Islam more than any of the stories about…

What kind of presidential election is this? Damned if I know.  By traditional standards it defies definition.  Bizarre is a word that easily comes to…

Yesterday, for the first time, I visited Bletchley Park, the rather dreary estate north of London where the British broke the German military codes in…

The British slang word ‘dodgy’, meaning less than trustworthy, was in circulation long before the political rise to prominence of Keith Vaz, but it might…