Try as I might, I just can’t get the hang of Game of Thrones. M, I’m relieved to say, is in the same boat. We’ve…
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‘Joy in Brazil as World Cup Opens’ ‘Riots in Brazil as World Cup Opens’ Such headlines – or variations on them – appeared in British…
So far, so good. I’ve managed, by successive acts of sheer lack of will, not to watch a single kick of the football World Cup…
News that President Obama is sending 300 military ‘advisers’ to help train the Iraqi army stirred a few echoes in the memory – and I…
An American reader – yes, Random Rants is truly a global enterprise – has asked why I haven’t bothered to write about the recent European…
I’m glad the weather was good in London yesterday, or otherwise I might have had to spend half the day reading the Sunday Times expose…
It happened so suddenly I scarcely had time to react. I had just finished dinner at home when I felt rough hands lifting me up…
Imagine you’re sitting on a prison panel, some kind of parole board, alongside two colleagues. In front of you stands Arnold Pickering, a convicted murderer…
Yet another mass shooting by gunfire in America. Yet another sad account of a perpetrator – this one suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome – with the…
Heaven Is for Real What do Jesus Christ of Nazareth and Colton Burpo of Omaha, Nebraska have in common? The answer, for those of you…