Notre Dame will rise again.  Miraculously, some would insist, although that would detract from the efforts of the Parisian fire service which worked through a…

The worst news of the week so far – a development that will trouble the world, if not Israel – is the re-election of Benjamin…

Brexit is a television serial more complex than Game of Thrones, without the entertainment value of sex and violence. By now, in the normal course…

The Mueller report, to the extent that it has been publicly released, may have pleased Republicans and angered Democrats but it mystifies me. While the…

This morning, while showering, it suddenly occurred to me that this month, perhaps even this week, marks the sixtieth year since I joined the famous…

New Zealand, for pity’s sake! Nothing bad ever seems to happen in New Zealand – unless the mighty All Blacks rugby team has a run…

The people in charge of my local train service seem to think they are running an airline, judging by the tiresome and ever-expanding solicitous welcome…

  Try as I might, I can’t get terribly excited about the current and continuing controversy over the issue of trans-gender athletes competing in women’s…

Did President Donald Trump really ‘walk out’ of the Hanoi summit with Kim Jong-un, reportedly forgoing one last dinner, simply in order to deflect attention…

“We must not let in daylight upon magic,” the historian and constitutionalist Walter Bagehot famously wrote of the monarchy. A great deal of daylight is…