The Oxford English Dictionary, in the slightly censorious tone that always accompanies such occasions, picked ‘toxic’ as its Word of the year. Not a terrible…

Let me first welcome to the debate, the Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa Maynot. Prime Minister, if I may, what will happen should you lose the…

Nothing exciting ever happens here in East Horsley, where I live. Nor, for that matter, down the road in West Horsley. Horsley (either one) is…

Welcome to 2019. And a hearty good riddance, I say, to 2018; not one of the vintage seasons in my ever-growing collection of years. The…

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…