America’s debate about the right of its citizens to bear arms will be turned up to full volume following the Newtown school massacre, but the…

“All’s well that ends well,” wrote the Bard, and I take comfort from the sentiment as another year ends. The last day of the year…

The ‘Scouting Movement’ – as it likes to be known – is in the news today, and for once it’s not because some nerdy, middle-aged…

Christmas cards are arriving thick and fast now, adding to the jolly seasonal custom of guessing who they’re from. “Gary and Peggy?” “You know who…

The season to be jolly – which invariably induces in my soul precisely the opposite mood – will kick off this afternoon, in our household,…

The hounding of the two Australian radio station presenters involved in the Duchess of Cornwall telephone hoax by a pack of ether-dwelling scavengers brings to…

November 21, 2012 In voting to bar women from becoming bishops, the Church of England has duly attracted opprobrium and ridicule as a fusty, intellectually…

This weekend, as television showed pictures of Israelis and Palestinians firing missiles at each other in a war with origins going back centuries, M told…

The Leveson Report, which has recommended statutory regulation of the British press, is remarkable in at least one respect: it has made politicians more popular…

Invitations to business-related Christmas parties are starting to come in thick and fast.  I’ve been to one already, but I’ve resolved not to go to…