Certain North Koreans and Americans are laying bare in all its newness the great division of our times, not between right and left, but between nation and world. When I…

We sang along to the chorus of Psycho Killer played by the resident punk band at Cardiff’s Mount Stuart Sq Casablanca Club, it was 1978. A few years later David…

Pongo, the genus name for all those Orang-utans being burnt alive or made homeless by the rampant deforestation in Malaysia and Indonesia for cheap palm oil production and the soul…

“The world is turning I hope it does not turn away” Neil Young “Donald Trump digs coal” the tee shirt slogan emblazoned across his campaign trail war chest sums up…

Perhaps an apparition of Dante’s first circle reserved solely for those well-heeled urbanists the world over, a parody Singapore’s well-watered, weeded and moated gardens (curtesy of its “guest workers”)? Singapore,…

A great song by Tom Robinson from 1978 interestingly echoed by the late AA Gill in his review of Brexit. “Wanting the country back is the constant mantra of all…

As the documented death of John Diamond  to cancer in his Times column “something for the weekend” we have lost another great albeit often vicious Sunday Times critic AA Gill…

The president elect is man who at best wishes to sleep in his cot again at worst he is attempting vaginal re-entry to his mother’s womb the inner sanctum of…

He, she, or they, but never I, it is the struggle the storyteller has faced since Homer. Over reliance on the third person omniscient narrator who has knowledge of everything…

Aneurin Bevan was a traditional Labour Party left winger famously spearheading the creation of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) a system that provides free medical care. Nye Bevan resigned…