I never fail to get a chuckle here when I describe my old drinking water supply in London; through a series of sewage treatment works and re...

Pilots will correct me, but I think the speed / runway distance during an aircraft's take off at which it is no longer possible to abort...

In 2008 when visiting an agricultural show, the then President of the Fifth Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy, was refused a handshake by a French f...

Worthless distinctions The honours system has been irredeemably befouled and corrupted by undeserved honours given to politicians and civil...

Well, it's been another year of surprises and our understanding of the world is just a bit different at the turn of this year from the t...

It's now eighteen months since that momentous referendum, and we're still leaving. With every single day it becomes more and more di...

Poland's judicial independence comes in at 99th in the 2018 World Economic Forum tables , below Swaziland, Mali and Zambia. Nigeria is a...

Poland's Independence Day in November - the 99th of the current incarnation of the nation - was dry but cold. Patriotic Poles were out e...

Reading Polly Toynbee's mind at work is almost heartbreaking . Today, she fairly and accurately describes a queue of debtors being dealt...

There's a certain glee in reports today that the accident-reducing 20mph zones in our towns and cities don't work . At least, it see...

It started with a typically whiny Guardian piece yesterday titled "No one cares about us - Brits in Europe" . It's part of a b...

This is a post about freedom, not an encouragement to smoke tobacco. Myself, I am a committed tobaccophile - I'm just taking a very long...

We go into 2018 with an EU that is already very different. Committed to becoming the USE within eight years, with an army, foreign office, f...

I'm sure, in the worldwide diesel fraud issue, that carmakers around the globe were complicit in at least a massaging of the test result...

I wonder if we should have an assessed code, somewhat after the manner of terrorist warnings, in respect of attempts by Remoaners to sabota...

No words today. Just a few images. 

If there's one word I've found that adequately describes many policemen above the rank of sergeant, it's 'chippy'. Perha...

I suspect that I am not the only EUphobic who is conflicted by the scale of the Brexit settlement. On the one hand, common sense suggests th...

This story illustrates three problems, all of which should be solved by Brexit. However, Brexit won't fix the very real problem being ex...

Austria's unashamed adoption of double standards, despite its appearance, really does have a kind of underlying logic. Thus crucifixes a...