Autumn has truly arrived, and more or less on time. I know this, not because of the ever-expanding vortex of dead leaves swirling aimlessly outside…

Always on the lookout for unfamiliar words or phrases, I’ve just come across one.  It popped up in an unlikely place: a website put out…

Prime Minister David Cameron, it has been reported, left his unlocked despatch box on a train last week.  Already certain sensitive documents, including emails between…

The Syria crisis has degenerated into what my late father would have called a bugger’s muddle. To recapitulate, Prime Minister David Cameron, having in righteous…

The script of Downtown Abbey is beautifully written, of course, but the subject matter, I feel, could use a little updating, including perhaps the subtle…

Does the niqab represent – if you will pardon the pun – a veiled threat to our liberty and way of life?  The majority of…

Forget Syria.  Let’s talk for a change about a less consequential topic, and arguably a completely inconsequential topic: Clint Eastwood. He comes to mind because…

Today marks the first anniversary of a bizarre, and in some respects comical, sequence of events arising from a minor incident involving a man, a…

To be honest, I could never really see the point of David Frost (who died over the weekend).  He had no obvious talents as an…

This may be a case of veering from the sublime to the ridiculous. Recently I wrote a piece in praise of Elmore Leonard, who died…