Sorry, but the Macbeth idiom is irresistible.  Presumably, after a full week of letting it be understood that any move by Burnham would be s...

Pic:  Daily Telegraph There won't be many readers who have heard of James Allcock (died at the age of 90, obit here , which you should m...

At the weekend I read this short piece, entitled : "Our Impossibly Small-souled President" The author, one Jeffrey Blehar, is no g...

In the previous post I suggested:  ... the Venezuela adventure is ... forcing Putin to eat more shit as he is lamely reduced to asking that ...

Last year's Predictions compo invited short essays on Ukraine.  I largely ducked this one but there was a very decent effort by Caesar ...