This past Saturday, on a typically grey and chilly December afternoon, the Twickenham faithful dutifully showed up expecting to watch their team receive a stern…
John Jessop Posts
Journalists can be egotistical, ruthless, scurrilous, unscrupulous, duplicitous, portentous and vain. They have a few faults as well. These, for the time being, we shall…
George Entwistle doesn’t seem to know much. He doesn’t seem to know what’s going on inside the BBC, the organization he leads as Director General. …
Recently, I met an acquaintance, a younger man, whom I hadn’t seen for some years. The first thing out of his mouth was, “You seem…
As callous as it may sound, I found myself welcoming America’s sex scandal as a blessed relief from the sordid revelations that have dominated our…
Pippa Middleton pocketed £400,000 to produce a book of party tips. It’s called, aptly enough, Celebrate. There must be a market for this kind of…
How do we rid ourselves of that ghastly phrase “no problem”? I suppose it started in America; at any rate I noticed its frequent use…
The United States economy is in the dumps, unemployment close to eight per cent, leaving working Americans feeling let down, beleaguered and fearful – and…
This morning, Barack Obama could be enjoying his morning coffee in the Oval Office thinking that winning re-election will turn out to be one of…
Some of my best friends are football (soccer) fans. I suppose I should say, rather, still football fans, because there was a time when…