Last night, as we watched on television news the terrible scenes of bloody rioting in Cairo, and of the continuing mayhem in Syria, M asked…

What a splendid sight it was last week, British warships sailing out of Portsmouth harbour – Spithead to some of you – cheered on from…

As the players tramped off the field for tea on the last day of the final Test Match of the Ashes series, the game seemed…

Will someone remind me again, because I must have forgotten, why we think it’s a sound idea to lob missiles into Syria.  Isn’t this in…

In 1959, when I was seventeen, I had the debatable privilege of meeting Cliff Richard.  We had only a brief chat – about what I…

Rarely do I think about death, but soon we may have to. A couple of scientists at Lancaster University claim to have hit upon a…

Prominent men treating women badly has a long and ghastly history and, based on the current outbreak of bashings and ‘sextings’ seems assured of an…

August is a month for harvesting and holidays and this year, if you’re a senior figure in the Labour Party, for hatching plots. While Ed…

Now we know. Londoners have been given a sneak preview of the city, and indeed country, that Mayor Boris Johnson and thousands of his hero-worshipping…

The novels of Elmore Leonard, the American novelist who has just died aged 87, are an acquired taste, but an awful lot of people have…