(With apologies dear reader from MJ who is slightly late in adding this Rant to the JJ files…this should have been loaded on Wednesday 29…

Some enchanted evening, I was thinking, I must force myself to sit down and finally watch the film version of South Pacific. So when it…

‘The banality of evil’ is the phrase that comes into my head after every serious terror attack.  (Hannah Ahrendt’s famous aphorism is actually the sub-title…

Nine days to go now until Britain files for divorce from Europe – or invokes Article 50, if you want to be technical about it…

A coincidence or some form of collusion with the Scottish Rugby Union? I refer to the announcement by Nicola Sturgeon, the First Minister of England’s…

I lost a good friend, Alex McCallum, last week. He died, suddenly in his sleep, apparently from a stroke – a good way to go,…

    President Donald Trump keeps charging the media with propagating ‘fake news’.  But what exactly is fake news? Because it is a very complex…

Yesterday a friend gave me a belated Christmas present, a media device called ‘fireTVstick’, available for purchase on-line through Amazon, but something I had never…