The Cynical Tendency

Cyclone Yasi is on its way to the Australian North East Coast. At present it is looking bad and will add to existing problems. I hope my cou...

The problems occurring in many parts of Africa at present owe a great deal to the latest version of The Scramble For Africa that has been go...

One of the curiosities in the large few years and especially during the recent crisis is the absence of much in the way of fraud and other s...

Lord Coe of Codswallop has appeared before us in his Savile Row suits and delicate personalised premium fragrances rather than the downmark...

Those who do not have a few tens of millions to splash out on second or tenth homes will have missed the shindig to celebrate the completion...

What is striking about the media coverage of events at present is not only the relentless attention given to some of the grubbier aspects of...

After staggering through torrential rain, luckily just ahead of the shunt that closed the motorway, we arrived at the hospital. Again, we ha...