July is usually, on Fleet Street, the start of the ‘dog days’ of summer.  But not this year.  Not even in the taprooms and coffee…

(with apologies from me being a day late entering this Rant – for those of you who are looking outside at rain pouring down, MJ)…

We are moving house, as the Americans say.  No, we are not moving our mansion, ‘White Ladyes’, brick-by-brick to a new location.  ‘White Ladyes’ is…

Donald Trump’s most serious defect, among many, is that he learns nothing. He is incapable of learning from history, because he doesn’t know any.  He…

Britain is basking in a heat wave.  For ‘basking’ read ‘suffering’; Britons do not cope well with heat.  They don’t cope well with extreme cold…

Dorothy Parker, who died fifty years ago today, wrote dreary short stories, bad plays and poetry that no one remembers.  None of which matters because…

My late father would have a phrase for Britain’s present predicament: “A bugger’s muddle.”  I can’t improve on it. We in this disunited kingdom find…

Some questions …. In the first place, why did she call an election in the first place?  She had a working majority.  Yes, it could…

What exactly is an extremist? Obviously, someone who is able and willing, in the name of a God, to mow down pedestrians in a van…

Britain is in the throes of an election campaign – and a sorry affair it is turning out to be. ‘Throes’ is, I think, le…