I am making this statement about a recent incident involving Martha and me in order to clear up any misunderstandings that might have arisen from…

Just what is it about Gerry and Kate McCann that always makes me feel vaguely uncomfortable?  Whenever the lugubrious pair pop back into the media…

I understand that a government agency in Germany is complaining that the German language is being invaded by English words.  I had to laugh when…

Apparently, there are moves afoot to persuade Transport for London, which runs the city’s transport networks, to allow corporate sponsorship of London Underground stations.  It…

This week, conspiracy theorists the world over will be descending, either literally or metaphorically, on a rather grubby, much derided Hertfordshire town called Watford. There,…

At last, after months of sleazy, and sometimes downright spurious, revelations about celebrity paedophiles, we’ve go a real honest-to-goodness scandal to sink our teeth into. …

The English countryside may be, as it always has been, marvellously idyllic, but it’s lately become a dangerous place.  Or so I read in the…

The die is cast.  We’ve just put our house on the market. I’m writing this as a form of an announcement, and you, my loyal…

Why, several readers have asked, haven’t I bothered this week to write a single word about Sir Alex Ferguson? They presume to know the reason.…

Birthdays, I find, always inspire a brief period of reflection, and my latest is no exception.  And I mean reflection rather than introspection.  I’m not…