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

peter grose
May 104 min read
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Let's hear it for, er, Donald
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...

peter grose
Apr 102 min read
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Most successful conspiracy EVER
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...

peter grose
Oct 9, 20244 min read
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Now I know ...
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...

peter grose
Aug 13, 20242 min read
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When it sizzles
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...

peter grose
Jan 18, 20244 min read
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A narrow escape!
Congratulations if you escaped the latest dastardly plan of the crypto-communist and far-left agitator now occupying the White House in...

peter grose
Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Whoops!
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...

peter grose
Sep 24, 20231 min read
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Way back when...
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...

peter grose
Aug 29, 20232 min read
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Confession time
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...

peter grose
Aug 16, 20232 min read
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Claptrap
I am indebted to my namesake Jessica Grose (no relation), a talented and fluent opinion writer on The New York Times, for the following...

peter grose
Jul 2, 20234 min read
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Rupert and me: part 2
Bear in mind that what I first wrote about Rupert Murdoch was published on 16 April, days before the Dominion Voting Machines...

peter grose
Apr 29, 20235 min read
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Rupert and me
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...

peter grose
Apr 7, 20235 min read
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Broadening the mind
Confession first. This blog entry was going to be about international prices. Instead it turns out to be about international exchange...

peter grose
Mar 24, 20236 min read
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The Third World ... and Welcome To It*
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...

peter grose
Oct 16, 20229 min read
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Where's yo' bin?
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...

peter grose
Sep 14, 20223 min read
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Let's hear it for BF
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...

peter grose
Jul 15, 20223 min read
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The elephant not in the room
When I was a young lad in Sydney, Australia there was a category of jokes called 'shaggy dog stories'. What the connection was between...

peter grose
Jun 14, 20223 min read
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A mighty zephyr
It's hardly a state secret that I supported the independent Zali Steggall (pictured above) in the seat of Warringah in the recent...

peter grose
Jun 8, 20223 min read
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Been there, got the T-shirt
Sunday 22 May 2022 It will not have escaped your attention that Australia held a national election yesterday, nor that the odious...

peter grose
May 22, 20227 min read
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Elle of a fight
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...

peter grose
Apr 27, 20225 min read
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