Christmas, of course, arrives annually in a multifarious variety in many different countries, regardless of any national religion. I’ve experienced how it’s celebrated throughout Europe,...
The coming festive season offers the opportunity for a brief respite from news fatigue and crisis overload, stress syndromes that the experts tell us have...
Britain’s ‘natural party of government’, as the ruling Conservatives are wont to regard themselves, picked a bad time to have a meltdown. In an ominous prelude...
The British - and the Americans - are notoriously reluctant to learn foreign languages, generally on the basis that it is unnecessary, given that English...
A comforting conceit shared within the much-maligned mainstream media is that, if everyone is criticising them, then they must be doing something right. This defensive pride...
I’ve just spent 3 weeks in hospital with mobility problems. I could extol the National Health Service - unique as British people like to consider...
Britain’s King Charles will this week deliver the opening address at the COP28 climate action summit in Dubai at a time when his country’s own...
