Sweden is a country renowned for having the most liberated attitude to matters of sex, so it comes as something of a surprise to learn…

President Obama has suffered predictably severe losses in the American mid-term elections, in the process relinquishing the Democrats’ control of the senate.  A strong message…

The sequence of events follows a depressingly familiar course.     A white police officer shoots dead a black youth, setting off a wave of riots, vandalism…

I see that Reuters, the news agency, my old outfit, has decided to ‘lighten up the file’ by restricting breaking news stories to 400 words. …

 More splendid news for Nigel Farage.  This morning: news arrives that the European Union wants an extra cash contribution from Britain of £1.7 billion.  And…

Was there a time in living memory when the human race felt more concerned, even downright petrified, about its future?   During the Cold War,…

A test pilot has been killed flying Richard Branson’s Virgin space shuttle, and as sad as that is, I’m hoping that the accident will now…

THE BOOK is out.  You know the one I mean, the one we’ve been waiting for all summer.  Now, finally, the long-promised bombshells have been…

I’ve been out of the country for four days and quite a bit seems to have happened while I was gone, at least in political…

A minister of the Crown resigned last week after sending a ‘selfie’ of his penis to an attractive young woman who, posing as a worker…