What a sorry state this country, this sceptic isle, is in. The disunited kingdom is ruled by an incompetent government led by a floundering prime…

Paris and London find themselves in crisis right now and each has responded very differently. It was always so. In France, President Emmanuel Macron attempts…

What do I like least in the world, a reader has asked; (though why I’m not sure?). So, with apologies to Mr Hammerstein II, and…

It is a decent convention to refrain from saying anything too nasty about the recently departed, but I don’t think it breaks the rule to…

If sport – any sport – serves a useful function these days, it is in taking minds off the relentlessly tiresome topic of Brexit. Over…

Amazon, the internet sales conglomerate, as opposed to the river for which it is apparently named, is now very big. Some would say too big.…

After two years of chaos and what laughingly passed for a negotiation Theresa May has finally accomplished the impossible, some would say the inevitable: a…

So much for a more conciliatory presidential tone! Off with the gloves, then.

The mid-term elections – which by and large went the way most commentators had predicted – could have been a lot worse for President Donald…

Here is a political parlour game for Americans. How many of the following 33 character deficiencies, picked at random and listed here in alphabetical order,…