“I would agree with you,” a business associate said to me yesterday, responding to some pronouncement I’d made.  “What are the conditions under which you…

The glossy brochure in glorious colour was printed and published last week.  It did our house full justice.  Well, at any rate I thought so. …

Another triumphant weekend for British sport; what on earth is going on?  After half a century of watching and suffering as gallant Brits, heroically and…

“Any news yet?” my wife enquired, having noticed me twiddling with my mobile phone, as she urged our rented car through the interminable forests and…

At first we thought we were the victims of a strike by defecating birds.  We were strolling in a waterfront park in Stockholm, a city…

What is it that shocked European politicians most about the revelation that the United States government is eavesdropping on them?   And what is so shocking…

Whatever happened to the art of the newspaper cartoon?  As in the passing of the age of the comedian, there seem to be far fewer…

On hot summer days such as today the newspaper headlines used to delight in reporting it under headlines like “London Sizzles in the Seventies”.  They…

Britain’s three main political parties appear to be in general agreement on the spending plans announced yesterday by the Chancellor of the Exchequer.  This, on…

“There seems to be something wrong with our bloody ships today,” complained Admiral Sir David Beatty at the Battle of Jutland, after two of his…