January: President Donald Trump resigns after special prosecutor Mueller finds evidence of collusion in the 2016 election, not only with President Putin of Russia but…

Earlier this week I attended what has become ritualised as an annual seasonal dinner organised by and for a group of former work colleagues –…

The year is not over yet, but it is not too early for this writer to categorise it as one of the worst in memory. …

Apologies for the long gap between blogs.  This was due to a technical problem, now resolved. Sanity prevails – for now. Call it wishful thinking,…

Christine Keeler has now presumably made front page news for the last time, although one would not necessarily bet on it.  The scandalous one-time party…

So, Trump’s Charlottesville gaffe was not a gaffe after all.  He really is a bigot.  As if we didn’t know. If his latest tweets, which…

All I can say is that I hope the Brexiteers are happy with the divorce bill. Fifty billion smackeroos has apparently been agreed as the…

If hysteria rules on the subject of sexual harassment, at least some of it offers diverting amusement. Like the odd and perhaps disturbed machinations of…

Charles Manson, America’s most infamous murderer and mesmeric cult leader, was like his victims in one respect: he never had a chance in life. Manson…

Allied forces led by the United States and Britain, having quelled the last resistance in Mosul and Raqqa, are said to have defeated ISIS. Splendid,…