Every so often, I use an iPad app to listen to American talk radio: I believe it’s a good way to find out what people on the other side of the Atlantic are thinking. This past week, I wanted an explanation for why Rick Santorum was doing so well in places like Alabama and Mississippi, [...]

After living in Britain for over 18 years, my mother and father retired to New York. On occasion, they go to the theatre: over the weekend, they saw a performance of “Look Back in Anger”, John Osborne’s seminal work, in a Manhattan playhouse. My initial thought was that this was unlikely to be a successful [...]

I think it was while we were on Avenue Franklin D. Roosevelt in Paris that my father told me that he and my mother wouldn’t be visiting Europe in 2011. We were taking a stroll after visiting an exhibition of Spanish art at the Musée Jacquemart-André; they were going to have a wander, I was [...]

My grandfather liked to tell the following anecdote: one day, a man is walking down a street, when he spots his friend approaching him. Upon closer inspection, the man notices that his buddy has a rubber band around his head. Upon greeting him, the man asks, “Why do you have a rubber band around your [...]

See larger image The End of the Party (Hardcover) By (author) Andrew Rawnsley List Price: £25.00 GBP New From: £17.50 In Stock Used from: £0.99 In Stock Release date March 1, 2010. I bought this tome shortly after its publication; however, I didn’t get around to reading it until I had to contend with less [...]

As the trailer indicates, this bio-pic going to be as scary as hell: Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. Tell me again, how did this man become President?

President Bush just offered an explanation as to what has happened to America’s financial system: Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. In his parlance, Wall Street “got drunk”. He also advised them to get rid of those “fancy financial instruments”. I suppose this is an improvement to him repeating the same [...]

…President Bush couldn’t shock you with yet another gaffe, he goes and does it again. As yesterday’s newspaper said: George Bush surprised world leaders with a joke about his poor record on the environment as he left the G8 summit in Japan. The American leader, who has been condemned throughout his presidency for failing to [...]