What to do with Shamima Begum? The question dominates the front pages of today’s newspapers. Begum, I should explain, is a British-born Muslim who as…

The State of the Union speech is a unique American political tradition. The rest of us should be grateful that it is. Unique, I mean.…

As much as I despise Donald Trump and all his nefarious works, the Divided America that commentators bewail daily, and which may yet threaten his…

I wrote the following piece for a trade publication, but thought it timely enough to qualify as a ‘Rant’. I used to work as a…

It was jolly decent, even brave, of Prince Philip, the Queen’s husband, to try to divert our attention from Brexit by pranging his car. A…

The Oxford English Dictionary, in the slightly censorious tone that always accompanies such occasions, picked ‘toxic’ as its Word of the year. Not a terrible…

Let me first welcome to the debate, the Prime Minister, Mrs Theresa Maynot. Prime Minister, if I may, what will happen should you lose the…

Nothing exciting ever happens here in East Horsley, where I live. Nor, for that matter, down the road in West Horsley. Horsley (either one) is…

Welcome to 2019. And a hearty good riddance, I say, to 2018; not one of the vintage seasons in my ever-growing collection of years. The…

The Dow Jones Industrial Average, America’s most popular stock market indicator, is down about 4000 points from its all-time high of 26,000 something. Most of…