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Ferrari Trumps Morgan!

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IT’S TOUGH when two of your old Fleet Street friends broadcast current affairs shows which clash during the biggest news week of recent years:...

We must remember the past: but don’t overlook present peril

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As we approach the centenary of the ending of the First World War, we shouldn’t overlook another anniversary: 9th/10th November sees the 80th anniversary...

Counting on the counter-intuitive

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Is it just me, or is an increasing amount of world news bizarrely contradictory? Counter-intuitive, indeed? Perhaps it’s all that fake news, generated by...

What a beautiful day – for a spot of positivity.

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“What a beautiful day…..” What a beautiful day for filling your trousers with ice-cream, sticking a cherry on your head and saying, “How’s that for...

Who will speak out?

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It’s Holocaust Memorial Day, when we commemorate (among other things) mankind’s failure to speak out and prevent the horrors of systemic genocide. It’s also...

Post-truth, post-irony, but not post-hope

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It's a popular view, something about which we Brits tend to joke incessantly, that Americans just don't get irony. I don't think it's true:...

SORRY, MR TRUMP: I’D LOVE A GIG AT THE WHITE HOUSE,...

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North-East Poet and playwright PETER MORTIMER on an unexpected invitation An email arrives from Washington DC. It reads: Dear Mr Mortimer, We were wondering if you were...

JAM yesterday, JAM tomorrow: never JAM today.

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As Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen explains to Alice, in Through the Looking Glass, you can have jam every other day: jam yesterday, and jam tomorrow; but never jam today. Ahead...

Tea with Donald Trump

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It was a tea party of sorts. Izzy, our seven-year-old was on a play date with her friend Jessie and, as a result, Jo and...

How old is old?

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How old is old? I’ve never thought age matters much. To be sure, when I was a young teacher I thought the head, well...