For the past two or three weeks the BBC has run out of contemporary recordings of change ringing for the 2-minute 'Bells on Sunday' ...

Whilst we wait for the judgement, I've been re-acquainting myself with Somerville and Ross' The Irish RM. The problem that Brussels ...

"I remember exactly how I decided to call the Referendum. Giles and Penny were coming up for a kitchen supper, and Sam had a spag bol o...

I may write to Saint Greta this morning, suggesting a new national memorial to all those who fall in the cause of the planet. Those killed b...

"No, I'm not wearing that, sorry. It's ... colourful. And swirly. The pattern is irregular. I always wear a white shirt" ...

Actually, you won't hear a peep about yesterday's election on the news or read a word in the nationals, because we've all got to...

It seems that the Teasack is a dangerous man when left alone with some official letter-paper and a biro. It started when his letter to Kylie...

Ian Dury should be compulsory for all those suffering the Brexit Blues. Today very briefly, I offer you Farage achieving top place in the ...

British Parliamentary sittings have, over the years, been characterised as individual and distinct epochae taking their character from the ...

Some things never change; from the Telegraph In 1938 John Reith, Director- General of the BBC, asked the German foreign minister to tell H...

A cautionary tale. For as long as anyone can remember, Good Friday or Karfreitag has always been the same. Easter is a big deal here - aft...

The seven  - or possibly now eight - MPs sitting for what, to be honest, we must call the Remain Party, despite having been preparing since ...

On board HM Cutter Vexatious somewhere in the Med .. The tannoy crackles into life "Now hear this! We have been ordered back to th...

There is a new suggestion going the rounds from the Remainers - that they should stage a Remainer 'General Strike' in the event of B...

I had intended to post about rebalancing political power this morning. No longer. It's not often that a story in which one was personall...

After reading the blurb for the new multi-million House of European History in Brussels, a building that pays homage to the architectural g...

"Thanks Gloria. And two digestives this afternoon, eh? It being Friday?" "Tea's just mashing, Mr Scroggins. Shall I bri...

Howard Jacobson in the Jewish Chronicle eviscerates Corbyn . Worth a New Year dram or two and a toast to our Judaic citizens. "We kno...

No Brexit today - I just can't do it.  Off to Spain, then. I can just remember fascist Spain under Franco in the early 1970s - despera...