Another day, another $
It’s not even two months since Trump was inaugurated and the whole western alliance has been upended. His vice president,…
Opinion
Private view
Top deck of the Clapham omnibus
I am in luck. The front seat on the left hand side in the direction of travel is vacant. I…
The newspaper
There’s a certain kind of magic that only newspapers have. Not the digital version on a screen. Not the curated…
A bygone age
Whatever Happened to pigskin and politesse? Craft, courtesy, and the changing world There was a time when I carried a…
Radio 4
Britains favourtites. What have I got to say about it? Is it still relevant in a multi channel world where…
Chief emergency officer
On Sunday I was discharged from hospital after a week’s stay. I was there because of a mistake. The…
The bird in the Bear – how I miss the Cold War
The photo was taken by a foreign correspondent on patrol with the RAF. (I was at university with his son,…
All the wrong notes
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, secondly as farce. Tragedy because the first time round it shouldn’t have happened. Farce…
Ask not for whom the bell tolls
“If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less.” One of the most famous and internationally…
Not so merry Christmas, Mr. Toad.
So this is Christmas, as the Yoko Ono and John Lennon song ‘Happy Christmas (War is over)’ goes. All of…