Rants
The Entitled ‘Titled’
As if the UK Honours System wasn’t already debased enough, there are those who seek an alternative affirmation of their merit and completely bypass it.
No Maskers, Thank You
I recently returned from a visit to the United States where I noted that JFK Airport was displaying signs saying, “We respect the choice of
Airport Security: It’s Time Somebody Said It
From my perspective, which today happens to be Singapore, I am halfway through a ten-flight round the world tour of international conferences. I have ‘done’
Peter Lynch: Remember His Name
‘The first casualty of war is the truth’ – that’s as true today as it’s always been, and never more so than in the wake
Olympic Overload
There is something new in my house. Silence! For the last three weeks the telly has been on morning, noon and night. The sound of
Never Dull in Hull
They say ‘It’s never dull in Hull’. Whoever ‘they’ are, clearly haven’t yet clocked the dreadful weather that this east coast city is routinely prone
The Insurance Racket
Keen-eyed readers may have noticed my absence of late – nothing more serious than taking a chill pill (actually a long holiday). I have finally
Tories Chicken Out
Like many of you, I am a sufferer of Conservative estrangement syndrome. However, it was only yesterday that I ruled out voting for them at
Leave the Garrick Alone!
(Photograph: Spudgun67, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons) The Guardian, in its relentless and ever increasingly anachronistic crusade against something called the Patriarchy, has