The sympathy that I once felt for Mr. and Mrs. Dowler, whose daughter Milly was murdered a few years ago, and whose mobile phone was…
John Jessop Posts
Bad sight of the week so far is a newspaper picture of Mary Tyler Moore attending the opening of something or other in New York. …
Tomorrow, September 17, brings the anniversary of the opening of the battle in 1944 for the road crossing across the Rhine at Arnhem, celebrated –…
I often wonder what’s going on in this country. I mean, what’s really going on. In one section of today’s paper I glumly absorb the…
Is stamp collecting dead? I’m wondering only because it is a dreary day. I’m recovering from a late night, and I can’t thing of a…
What is the Real World? I ponder this question in the context of that increasingly popular put-down, “You should spend some time in the real…
Today is not September 11, it is 9/11. The tenth anniversary of The Event, to be exact. This weekend, on hundreds of programmes on dozens…
Press reports that Prince Harry has been cavorting merrily with nubile young ladies at a night club in Croatia – including a dunking in the…
Tony Cascarino, a television commentator for Sky Sports, might have chosen a more thoughtful word than ‘holocaust’ to describe the poor performance of Arsenal full-back…
Why, in this land of common sense and tolerance, do we hate travellers? We do, apparently, so much so that even the United Nations, always…