Is something happening to my brain, I wonder? It’s not the onset of Alzheimer’s, I’m sure, but could it be something almost as insidious –…
John Jessop Posts
Clicking my way through the movie channels yesterday evening, I came across that once infamous and timelessly fatuous 1963 cinematic epic, Cleopatra. I can’t remember…
Perhaps sadly, I’m finding it hard to get worked up into a lather of indignation because Sally Bercow, the wife of the Speaker of the…
English, we are often reminded, is a living language, always receptive to amended usage, new coinage and even modified pronunciation. Amen to all that, I…
In the scintillating, constantly-changing, tabloid-sponsored, obsession-inducing world of celebrity I’m about as tuned out as a cell phone in a coal mine. To be honest,…
A television news clip from Birmingham last night showed a mother and a male fellow citizen exchanging opinions about the cause of the riots. The…
What a relief, after a week of truly awful headlines, to pick up a newspaper and read that the country has managed to do something…
Public outrage over the riots in Britain, while perfectly understandable, has been utterly predictable and therefore sadly unhelpful. What was predictable was the degeneration of…
The sun is shining this Monday morning as I breakfast on the terrace. My garden has never looked lovelier – the roses in full bloom,…
An inexplicable feeling of mild euphoria has enveloped me this Monday morning. The sun is shining in a cloudless sky; England’s cricketers are about to…