How America fell for the greatest political con trick of modern times, and why the latest election results might finally signal the beginning of the end.
The Second Coming. Apparently.
Well, well, well.
The Republicans have taken an absolute kicking in the American midterm elections, with the Democrats winning control of Congress. But fear not, because Donald Trump has explained everything.
Apparently, the Republicans would have won ...
A friend asked me this whether I’d seen any roach in the Kennet on my dog walk today.
It was a simple question, but it stayed with me. It brought back memories of a river I once knew through a float, a landing net and an optimism that my angling ability rarely justified.
It also prompted me to do some reading. Were the fish really disappearing, or was I remembering everything through the forgiving haze of thirty-odd years? Was I right ...
Goals, assists, records and an extraordinary ability to improve with age. At what point do we finally accept that Harry Kane is genuinely world class?
There is something quite extraordinary happening with Harry Kane. At an age when most strikers are beginning to lose a yard of pace, drop deeper to conserve energy and contemplate the lucrative business of winding down their careers in the Middle East, Kane appears to be getting better.
The ...
There is a strange British obsession with tax. We don’t just dislike paying too much of it, which is perfectly reasonable, we seem to have reached the point where taxation itself is regarded as some sort of government-sponsored mugging.
I’m All Right, Jack
This attitude didn’t appear overnight. Since the great surge of individualism in the Thatcher years, we have steadily been encouraged to think of tax primarily as money being ...
There are occasions when British current affairs stops resembling serious news and starts looking like an episode of Slow Horses written by the team behind Only Fools and Horses.
The extraordinary events around RAF Fairford may yet turn out to be extremely serious. Counter Terrorism Policing is still investigating, including the possibility of people acting on behalf of a foreign state. Five men were arrested on suspicion of explosives ...
