The spirit of McCarthysim is alive and well in America. There I was thinking that the old demagogue’s risible legacy was dead, buried and banished…
John Jessop Posts
If the Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney came to Britain for diplomatic as well as fund-raising purposes, the Grand Old Party might just as well…
One of John Terry’s more articulate teammates was asked for his views on the recent court case involving Terry’s alleged use of a racial epithet…
Not this year, then. Again. By all accounts poor Andy Murray played very well in the Wimbledon men’s final, just not very well enough to…
Yes, he’s gone! Rupert Murdoch, the dirty digger of Fleet Street, admired by a few as the scourge of the print unions, vilified by the…
The countdown begins. Fourteen days to the opening ceremony of the greatest sporting spectacle on earth, and in London’s very own backyard, formerly known as…
Sorry to harp on about LIBOR and the exploits of bad-boy bankers, but attempts to implicate the Bank of England and certain Labour politicians into…
I start the week with a confession: yesterday afternoon, the rain tipping down outside, I took to my armchair to watch the European Cup Final…
The Scientologists sound utterly mad, don’t they? Not to mention creepy, as Rupert Murdoch has recently tweeted. I mean, really, how seriously is one supposed…
The newspapers report yet another account of a typical day in the City of London: a fresh banking scandal erupts; one more stellar executive bites…