Yesterday, on a whim, I bought an old football programme through the medium of an eBay auction. Actually my wife bought it. She’s much better…
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Who does he think he is, this fellow Gove? This angrily rhetorical question was being asked last week by a number of education experts, and…
I’ve been reading about the latest banking shenanigans with a certain degree of proprietorial interest. The new scandal is about LIBOR – an acronym for…
If ever there were to be nominations for a patron saint of modern journalism, Edward R. Murrow might well be the posthumous favourite. That would…
That’s it for me: no more significant Jubilees in my lifetime. Nor even, I’m guessing, in the lifetimes of our children. Some random thoughts on…
It is ironic that two of the countries that suffered most brutally under the Nazis in the Second World War should now be confronting youthful…
Let me recount an incident that you may regard as so trivial and so common that it hardly merits the time I’m going to spend…
Can Barack Obama win in November? For the first time I’m beginning to doubt it. Mitt Romney isn’t my cup of tea, to put it…
Made it! Seventy years old! Ignore those exclamation marks. They may be required grammatically, but in terms of underlying dramatic impact they are pointless: reaching…
Merchants in Esher, the Surrey town in which I live, have been warned, I’m told, that banners or displays promoting products not approved by the…