The film version of that monumental stage hit Les Miserables didn’t really stand a chance with me. I’m just not that keen on sung-through musicals,…
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Alex Jones is clearly a buffoon, but is he a dangerous buffoon? Jones is the syndicated radio host from Austin, Texas, who recently…
Why are we British, or evidently most of us, still so viscerally hostile to the idea of the European Union? Is it the economic mess…
Stock markets around the world are ‘surging’ this morning, investors venting their relief that the last-minute agreement negotiated in Washington will save the American economy…
Jack Hawkins was a name that kept coming up last weekend. Who, you may ask, was Jack Hawkins? Was he a pirate ship cabin boy? …
January 1, 2013. The sun is shining and it’s not raining.
Somehow, I managed to miss the first series of Borgen, the Danish television series about politics and the press, but I’m expecting to get hooked…
The Congressional Republicans, like Thelma and Louise, seem determined to drive the battered American economic jalopy over the so-called fiscal cliff. I’ve no idea…
From time to time, usually in the depths of a dank English Winter, and at risk of stretching M’s incredulity to anxiety for my mental…
What a memorable year 2012 has been for this grand old country of ours. Who says Britain is going to the dogs? A happy and…