For all his boasts, Gavin Newsom is presiding over a state where the lights can’t stay on, where homelessness and crime are rampant and where he has run up a

IF someone isn’t a man then what are they? “A woman”? Ha – wrong answer, bigot! Read more

THERE are times when I can almost believe in cosmic justice. Nicola Sturgeon being in the back of a police car at the weekend was one such time. Read more

The poet’s body exited this world in a white-hot funeral pyre, save for a remnant of his soul. Read more

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I cannot be the only person who notices the asymmetry at work here – the effort to rip apart our own myths and truths while inventing wholly new myths about

It doesn’t matter who you vote for in America — on the matter of illegal migration the results are always the same. To be fair, it is the same in

John Keats, who died tragically with little renown at 25, wrote poignant poems that eventually gave him everlasting life. Read more

I first became aware of Schofield when he was presenting children’s television from the BBC’s ‘broom cupboard’ with Gordon the Gopher. I have not followed the career of either character