AS problems proliferate in ever more areas of the EU: Visegrad, Salvini, gilets jaunes, no-go areas, immigrant crime levels, unaffordable welfare costs – not...
NOT long ago I wrote about the perceived life-threatening evils of bacon, as advised by the World Health Organisation, only to receive many comments...
MOANING about public transport is a favourite national pastime. But now it’s not just about overcrowding, or trains being late, or even drivers’ strikes....
IN Wednesday’s Spectator, Pieter Cleppe of the independent think tank Open Europe in Brussels writes that Martin Selmayr has taken over the Brexit negotiations...
SATURDAY morning has come round again, and instead of the usual mid-week Presbyterian breakfast of porridge and blueberries, we splash out: poached egg (a...
BACH’S Christmas Oratorio was first performed in 1734 in the St Nicholas Church in Leipzig, where Bach was musical director, jointly with the Thomaskirche....
IT’S that time of year again. Even my hairdresser here in Switzerland is feeling the pressure: Weihnachtsstress, he calls it, because everyone wants a...
WE are all aware of the desperate anti-democratic efforts to overturn the legitimate People’s Vote of 2016 to leave the EU: witness the oh-so-conveniently...
