Brits in the USA

It occurred to me recently that I never did write the final blog about my visit to England. The summer seems distant although there’s no e...

All our images from that time are gray and industrial - of seven year plans and cold intrigue in the Politburo; of weapons of war being p...

By 5 p.m. sometimes distraction dogs me. There’s too much of it; too many faces, too many places too many names that pop up on the ticker. ...

When I was at university I was rather scrawny. I was probably only 120 pounds which didn’t auger well for the hall rugby team. Unfortunatel...

In a recent post on this blog I argued it was time to give Facebook the big heave ho and unfriend Mark Zuckerberg because he was trampling...

Oh there goes George Baker, better known as Inspector Wexford, dead at the age of 80 of pneumonia . Just weeks ago Columbo popped his clogg...

I'm not sure if April is the cruelest month. It seems to be October. October is the cruelest month because it gives us a glimpse of w...

I'm the first to admit it can be hard doing the same job day in day out, without many pay raises for the last 100 years, but I have fou...

It says much about the power of the social networking site Facebook that on one ticker on the TV news this week controversial changes to th...

Steam trains; they run through our imaginations don't they? At least if you are from a certain generation when the generation before gr...

My series of blogs about my holiday to Britain was interrupted by events I couldn't ignore such as the 10th anniversary of 9/11 and ge...