When in the States, I keep my TV tuned exclusively to white ...

OK, three months are up. Time for another potpourri of unconnected items. I can’t claim any thematic thread this time. Like the universe in current cosmological models, my output is tending toward perfect entropy, pure randomness. (Before reaching that blessed state, most of the matter in ...

Just a note of cautionary darkness, there, listeners. I didn't mean to spoil your ...

There has been an outbreak of realism recently. I noticed it first in the postelection commentary. The normal thing is that following an election, the thumb-sucking commentariat carves up the result by interests: region, class, religion, the economy, liberal-conservative inclination, etc. You can ...

...sticking it to the rich is a real psychological ...

It is traditionally said that after the Lord Mayor’s Parade come the guys with brooms and shovels to clear the pavement of whatever the parade horses may have bestowed upon it. Well, the election’s over, and here I come with broom and shovel to see if there’s anything instructive ...

The attraction to Obama was mostly purchased through the time-honored method, fundamental to democracy, of shoveling public money to key ...

OK, so I did vote after all, my lofty apathy indifference of three weeks ago notwithstanding. It was my son that sent me off to the polling booth. Danny Derbyshire has for years had his heart set on joining the Army. A high-school senior, he encountered a recruiter back in September, and the ...

Ms Moffitt said she'd been attacked and set on fire by three men wearing white ...

I was reading one of the angrier conservative bloggers the other day when I came to a sentence where he referred to President Obama as a “communist.” It stopped my eye. I am no fan of Obama, and I have a high tolerance for vituperation. (I like the late Auberon Waugh’s definition ...