“We are cleared for take-off,” airline pilots like to announce when the plane finally reaches the front of the departure queue.  Passengers who have been…

‘The land of the free and the home of the brave.’ That is the America we all, Americans and foreigners alike, once admired. It is…

    So, now we know. Donald Trump wants rapprochement with Kim Jong-un so that the Trump Organization can build condominiums in North Korea. The…

Name a world leader Donald Trump has not fallen out with.  I can’t. Benjamin Netanyahu, I suppose, because he and Trump share similar feelings of…

A few ‘Rants’ ago I alluded to Britain being a country increasingly ill at ease with itself, and some overseas readers have asked why this…