World Obama declines to run for president, is replaced by Hillary Clinton. Sarah Palin narrowly defeats Clinton in first all-female US presidential election. Sarkozy loses…

Be thankful for large mercies, I say, the smaller ones will take care of themselves. As another year winds down, I am happy to deploy…

Britain is a liberal, tolerant, sensible and largely law-abiding country, and I’m thankful for that, but its legal establishment and I part company on the…

Watching rugby, live, the day after the Christmas madness ought to be a relaxing diversion.  It isn’t if the match is played at Twickenham. A…

 Nearly there!  I mean the end of the Season of Goodwill. Christmas Day, celebrated with our family’s customary guilt-ridden orgy of gift-giving and other forms…

  1   My wife Martha remains beautiful  2   Speaker John Bercow resigns after parliamentary scandal, Sally stays with him.  3   All one-day cricket fixtures are cancelled…

I’ve just been talked into serving as chairman of a local charity, the Esher Neighbourhood Fund, and I’m already starting to fret.  Dominic Raab, Conservative…

 News that North Korea’s long-standing ruler Kim Jong-il has died left western political analysts confused about what might happen next.  Little wonder.  As just about…

Mark Zuckerberg is a computer genius, his Facebook enterprise a phenomenon.  Both founder and company are emerging as shapers of the century, alongside Bill Gates…

I am happy, and I might add privileged, to count myself a resident of Esher, a well-heeled, well-bred suburban enclave in the ‘stockbroker county’ of…