Advice to the new PM…oh, she’s gone
On the day that Liz Truss becomes Prime Minister, I thought it might be helpful to offer her some advice….
Politics
Decision time
In the film The Day Of The Jackal, starring Edward Fox as the eponymous assassin, the Jackal had reached a…
Is Le Pen mightier than the sword?
At the end of next week the French electorate will reduce down the list of candidates for the Presidency to…
Facing west
Everything is politics. It has taken a war to wake me up to this truth. It’s not that I have…
Why the war in Ukraine will turn us all into refugees.
Yesterday, my family joined about twenty other people – all Ukrainians or Russian emigres opposed to Putin’s regime – on…
The South shall not rise
Holy Hell. A Stars and Bars flag being flown in the central lobby of the Capitol building of the United…
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…
A loss of menace
I love the Saatchi Gallery. It used to be on the Southbank but it is now housed in the Old…