A Question of Interests
April 4, 2026
One way of understanding the Prime Minister, I think, is to assume he is a child playing at being Prime Minister. Like a little person solemnly sitting
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How to Enter the UK Without Trying
April 3, 2026
It is five long months since the East Sussex town of Crowborough first learned that its local army training camp — which had previously been
British Airways Goes Full Sharia
April 1, 2026
In a move which is bound to outrage frequent flyers, the airline British Airways (BA) has decided that it will no longer serve alcohol in its
The Politically Incorrect Pleasures of Are You Being Served
March 31, 2026
It’s unlikely you’d hear the line “If my pussy isn’t attended to by eight o’clock, I shall be stroking it for the rest of the
The Worst Job I Ever Had
March 26, 2026
Thanks to a recent YouTube recommendation, I have rediscovered the delights of Derek and Clive aka Dudley Moore and Peter Cook. One infamous recording, ‘The
Wine O’Clock
March 25, 2026
“And relax. Put your feet up. Well, that was a day, wasn’t it? Anyway, you made it through and that’s not nothing. In fact, you
Why?
March 20, 2026
My old tutor, a monk, towards the end of his life, told me that he had spent seventy years looking for something he had possessed all along. He was not
A week in Prague
March 20, 2026
I have been in Prague this week for the first time. While I love many European and Eastern European capital cities such as Vienna and Budapest, Prague knocks those
Sublime Indifference
March 18, 2026
“Nothing matters very much, and few things matter at all.” Arthur Balfour (attrib.) It took, it is said, seven days for news of Abraham Lincoln’s