Tag: Donald Trump
Ferrari Trumps Morgan!
IT’S TOUGH when two of your old Fleet Street friends broadcast current affairs shows which clash during the biggest news week of recent years:...
We must remember the past: but don’t overlook present peril
As we approach the centenary of the ending of the First World War, we shouldn’t overlook another anniversary: 9th/10th November sees the 80th anniversary...
Counting on the counter-intuitive
Is it just me, or is an increasing amount of world news bizarrely contradictory? Counter-intuitive, indeed? Perhaps it’s all that fake news, generated by...
What a beautiful day – for a spot of positivity.
“What a beautiful day…..”
What a beautiful day for filling your trousers with ice-cream, sticking a cherry on your head and saying, “How’s that for...
Who will speak out?
It’s Holocaust Memorial Day, when we commemorate (among other things) mankind’s failure to speak out and prevent the horrors of systemic genocide. It’s also...
Post-truth, post-irony, but not post-hope
It's a popular view, something about which we Brits tend to joke incessantly, that Americans just don't get irony. I don't think it's true:...
SORRY, MR TRUMP: I’D LOVE A GIG AT THE WHITE HOUSE,...
North-East Poet and playwright PETER MORTIMER on an unexpected invitation
An email arrives from Washington DC. It reads:
Dear Mr Mortimer,
We were wondering if you were...
JAM yesterday, JAM tomorrow: never JAM today.
As Lewis Carroll’s Red Queen explains to Alice, in Through the Looking Glass, you can have jam every other day: jam yesterday, and jam tomorrow; but never jam today.
Ahead...
Tea with Donald Trump
It was a tea party of sorts.
Izzy, our seven-year-old was on a play date with her friend Jessie and, as a result, Jo and...
How old is old?
How old is old? I’ve never thought age matters much. To be sure, when I was a young teacher I thought the head, well...
