The Dow Jones Industrial Average, America’s most popular stock market indicator, is down about 4000 points from its all-time high of 26,000 something. Most of…

Why does Vladimir Putin bother trying to destabilise the West? It seems to be doing a perfectly good job without Russian mischief. Or, for that…

Brexit is unresolved, concern grows that Britain will stumble into a ‘hard’ departure from the European Union with unknown consequences, and share prices are plummeting…

What a sorry state this country, this sceptic isle, is in. The disunited kingdom is ruled by an incompetent government led by a floundering prime…

Paris and London find themselves in crisis right now and each has responded very differently. It was always so. In France, President Emmanuel Macron attempts…

What do I like least in the world, a reader has asked; (though why I’m not sure?). So, with apologies to Mr Hammerstein II, and…

It is a decent convention to refrain from saying anything too nasty about the recently departed, but I don’t think it breaks the rule to…

If sport – any sport – serves a useful function these days, it is in taking minds off the relentlessly tiresome topic of Brexit. Over…

Amazon, the internet sales conglomerate, as opposed to the river for which it is apparently named, is now very big. Some would say too big.…

After two years of chaos and what laughingly passed for a negotiation Theresa May has finally accomplished the impossible, some would say the inevitable: a…