The bobby, that stalwart and beloved emblem of the British national character, is on the way out.  Fewer and fewer policemen are now wearing those…

Beware of Greeks bearing debts.  Europe is so being warned by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who insists that the new left-wing Greek government fulfil…

It must seem as if your favourite ‘Rantor’ has gone AWOL.  Nothing in life is quite that simple. As JJ would designate his wife, M, she…

In political terms, if not in other respects, Britain is now an asylum in which the inmates have taken over and are running rampant through…

“The road to health is paved with good intestines.” I can now chuckle over that old medical quip as, after eight days in hospital, my…

Were you moved by the demonstration of European unity in Paris following the terrorist attacks?  I wasn’t, because I’m innately suspicious of such public outpourings…

   Here’s a hypothetical case, in both facts and the predicted public response to them. Let’s suppose that a convicted rapist is released from prison. …

Inflation is low and the oil price is plunging.  Good news, eh? Well you would think so.  We always used to think so.  Not that…

Cinema box-office receipts in Britain fell more than five per cent in 2014, apparently hitting their lowest point since such records were kept.  I suspect…

Here’s a random selection of objectionable public figures I don’t wish to watch, hear or read about in 2015 but will almost certainly have to,…