The age of pandering to individuals and their whims might, I suppose, be seen as some asymptote of the rising trajectory launched by the ind...

Without the slightest doubt, every nation will be forced to rein back its 'net zero' plans - because with the technology available r...

Evidently undeserving (1)  So, farewell then, Wilko.  Always seemed a nice store to me.  We'd all welcome BQ's informed take on What...

From Curry's sending off in the third minute of England's RWC opener on Saturday, England were backs to the wall.  And how George Fo...

A month ago we wrote :  Scrapping the grain deal, and blasting grain storage facilities, looks like a serious blunder ... the potential for ...

Some valuable practical detail in BTL comments after that last post - very much what I had in mind when writing " very real practical ...

Hansen & partner: disingenuous whinge The Beeb:  everybody has their favourite gripe but where to begin?  From down on the farm at the h...

This is not a short read. But it is a beautifully crafted piece of satire on the dreadful culture-war assault on freedom of expression in a...

Parky, RIP There are two episodes of Parkinson's programme on the Beeb that I remember with particular fondness: both relate to comments...

A bit of Monday Morning Quarterbacking here.  Saturday’s match against Wales confirmed, if confirmation was required – that the liability kn...

Chancing my arm with the trolls again ...  In May of last year, after Russia had proved itself quite unable to execute Putin's offensive...

Here's an entertaining extract from a recent Graun piece by Robin Moira White, "a discrimination barrister at Old Square Chambers...

Russian 'milblogging' is an interesting phenomenon of the Special Military Operation .  Almost all milboggers are fervent nationalis...

If, as seems likely, the Tories held Uxbridge as a reaction to Sadiq Khan's ULEZ extension, well, we ain't seen nothing yet. The UK ...

Seven months ago I wrote that in his problems with public sector pay on many fronts, Sunak had been immeasurably helped by the sheer number ...

Erdogan has really excelled himself this time, the major obvious casualty of his machinations being Putin and his ever more flimsy stature ...

Asset-stripping is hardly new: but the first really big company to be terminally hollowed out by modern financial engineering was Enron (198...

For sure, there's been some silly reporting, and we have the Graun to thank for patiently explaining: " At no point did anyone ide...

A point made around here ad nauseam is that Surprise is really important in warfare.  Clearly Mr Wagner agrees, and has pulled off a beauty...

The ghastly fate of the Titan has already sparked one commentator into making a predictably incendiary semi-political comment , so with a bi...