A lifetime spent in inexplicable good health left me ill-prepared for my recent medical setback. I feel obliged to regale you with the morbid details,…
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One of the minor consequences of a period of enforced inactivity (the result of recent medical problems, mine and M’s, both now resolved) is getting…
Say no more, Nicola. Preferably ever. Nicola Sturgeon, Scotland’s first minister, as quoted in the Guardian newspaper today, apparently thinks Harold Wilson was Britain’s greatest…
It is, evidently, Society’s fault that three Muslim schoolgirls from East London have been led astray. The collective ‘we’ of society – their school teachers,…
The big news in Britain today is that a leading politician gave a straight answer to a direct question, an event considered sufficiently rare as…
“Why do we keep coming back to this awful place?” The question is one that members of our little gang of Fleet Street veterans take…
I’m with Elton John. Calling his two children and others like them, conceived by IVF using a surrogate mother, ‘synthetic’, as Messrs Dolce and Gabbana…
Taking the time to write anything has taken an effort these past few days. I haven’t suddenly developed writer’s block (some would say I’ve never…
Do you know what a pangolin is? I had only the vaguest idea until a few days ago, when I read a newspaper report that…
A fly on the wall in the office of the Communications Secretary this morning may have heard some choice words this morning. Many of them…