An intellectual showdown between church and state on the status of marriage might once have been something to relish (or fear) but today it doesn’t…
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What goes on in English schools? I mean, how do teachers and students actually spend their time, every day, five days a week, forty weeks…
At last, an airline that may be prepared to do something to make traveling less stressful. The captain of a JetBlue flight from Turks &…
This year, 2012, is probably my thirtieth of not watching Hollywood’s Academy Awards ceremony. Perhaps that entitles me to a special lifetime achievement award –…
The affluent citizens of Greece have a lot to answer for in their country’s dire economic predicament, but I can’t say I blame the rest…
Maybe it will be third time lucky for that vast unlovely white elephant, Battersea power station, and its surrounding 30-something acre site. The place is…
The reputation of the press took a terrible, and well-deserved, bashing during the recent Leveson Enquiry, but news of Marie Colvin’s death in Syria ought…
My last ‘rant’, about the High Court ruling banning prayers at council meetings, attracted criticism for being wishy-washy. The piece suggested that while I approve…
The high court ruling that Bideford Council should stop opening its meetings with prayers seems right to me, even if it does place me on…
Remember that ‘foul dust’ line in The Great Gatsby? Nick Carroway, the novel’s narrator is musing on the sad fate of his friend. “Gatsby…