Narendra Modi (India) with Xi Jinping (China) The Law of Untended Consequence (see my 10 April 2025 blog entry for details) seems to have...

Say what you will about DJT (and I've said a fair bit in these pages, not all of it flattering) he has done a lot for the Law of...

Let’s put a once-and-for-all stop to all this Trump-led nonsense about rigged polls at the 2020 US presidential election. We’ll take the...

I am indebted  to an unlikely source, YouTube, for solving a mystery that has been bugging me for weeks. How come Kamala Harris has so...

I've now been living in France for fifteen, coming on sixteen, years. I've never regretted my decision, after 37 years, to part company...

Congratulations if you escaped the latest dastardly plan of the crypto-communist and far-left agitator now occupying the White House in...

Back in 2008, when I was writing An Awkward Truth about the bombing of Darwin by the Japanese in 1942, I foolishly wrote: 'It is perhaps...

Can you remember as far back as 2016 when Donald Trump promised that if elected he would bring such a winning streak to the presidency...

Confession is said to be good for the soul. Well, my black soul is in permanent need of attention, so here goes … confession time. I...

I am indebted to my namesake Jessica Grose (no relation), a talented and fluent opinion writer on The New York Times, for the following...

Bear in mind that what I first wrote about Rupert Murdoch was published on 16 April, days before the Dominion Voting Machines...

Rupert who? You might well ask. Rupert Murdoch, that’s who. I am now going to put at risk a hard-won reputation for being ‘profoundly...

Confession first. This blog entry was going to be about international prices. Instead it turns out to be about international exchange...

I‘ve just spent a couple of weeks in Cuba. If I were the Cuban authorities, I wouldn’t let me in again. The first time I came here, back...

Our local commune of Saint-Pierre d'Oléron, quite rightly, nags the hell out of all of us over rubbish. We are told that sorting the...

Ben Fox (above) has always been nice to me. I was nice to him in an earlier blog (July 19 2021: America after the horrors) where I said...

When I was a young lad in Sydney, Australia there was a category of jokes called 'shaggy dog stories'. What the connection was between...

It's hardly a state secret that I supported the independent Zali Steggall (pictured above) in the seat of Warringah in the recent...

Sunday 22 May 2022 It will not have escaped your attention that Australia held a national election yesterday, nor that the odious...

Elle magazine is something of a French institution. It comes out weekly, looks as good and reads as well as any monthly, and is regularly...