Two phrases that keep cropping up in the news of late leave me wondering what they actually mean, and indeed, whether they have – or…

Prefabs may be coming back, as an answer to Britain’s perennial housing shortage, or so I’ve been reading in the newspapers. What are ‘prefabs’, exactly?…

Where is Mark Twain when we need him? Or do I mean Benjamin Disraeli? Both are said to be the originator of the phrase “Lies,…

These are tough times for journalists, on both sides of the Atlantic, and could get tougher still. I can’t speak for scribblers outside the Anglophone…

  God bless the United States of America – and good luck.

Early this morning, I decided I would write about something different – different meaning something other than Trump. Or as my Jewish friends in New…

Are the leaked documents purportedly linking Trump with Russian hackers real or fake? The answer is, of course, is that we have no idea.  Well,…

Barack Obama was not a great president, nor a terrible president, just a mediocre one.  The trouble is that we had expected better – much,…

The British government is preparing legislation that poses a serious, potentially lethal, threat to the freedom of the press. The offending piece of legislation, known…