Flying has never been among my assorted phobias, but if what I’m reading about of late in the newspapers is true, I may well be…
John Jessop Posts
The dread that those of us of the liberal persuasion experienced about European elections a month or two ago seems to be receding. The…
Another bloody election – and what is the real reason behind the decision to call it? The media have by and large swallowed the…
It has a biblical ring to it: MOAB. “And lo, it came to pass in the land of Jordan there came from the heavens a…
What exactly is Donald Trump up to? It is a legitimate question to ask – and with no criticism implied – given that even as…
The future of the House of Lords, Britain’s upper parliamentary chamber has been the subject of debate for as long as I can remember –…
(With apologies dear reader from MJ who is slightly late in adding this Rant to the JJ files…this should have been loaded on Wednesday 29…
Some enchanted evening, I was thinking, I must force myself to sit down and finally watch the film version of South Pacific. So when it…
‘The banality of evil’ is the phrase that comes into my head after every serious terror attack. (Hannah Ahrendt’s famous aphorism is actually the sub-title…
Nine days to go now until Britain files for divorce from Europe – or invokes Article 50, if you want to be technical about it…