Earlier this week The Times reported a suggestion that national service could usefully be re-introduced. Many people do not like the idea of return to a system of military training for all young people. However, national service need not be military service. From the age of sixteen young people might benefit from being able to volunteer to …
In its comments on car sales in 2019 the Institute of Advanced Motorists reports that only SUVs and sports cars were sold in greater numbers in a market where total numbers sold have declined for the third consecutive year. With overcrowding on our roads and in our towns why are larger and faster models required? …
Last week there were reports of aggressive driving on London’s near-abandoned roads. Today there is a report of another death there, not of a motorist of course, but of a cyclist. I speak as someone who has cycled in and around London since 1959, and as a member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists. Driver …
Back to school – a king returns. A sixty seconds story The old man was confined to bed now, unable to get himself up and care for himself. For most of his life he had taught boys at this well-known boarding school and had found himself in charge of a group of boys who shared …
Abducted by an ambitious wife to be a starlet’s accessory in the land of the free. Nonsense. It’s all a plot to overturn the Declaration of Independence and regain the American colonies. Any time now Harry will be back in the UK with a begging bowl, fundraising for Meghan’s run against Trump for the White …
Our grandparents called it “Cut and Strung.”
The United States of America is on of the very few former British colonies not to have joined The Commonwealth of Nations. Would they be admitted?
An international report last week about the state of education in the UK has been seen as suggesting that raised expectation of schools may have contributed to some improvements in British educational outcomes. Nowhere is there any reference to parents.Parents are at liberty to reproduce at will, without let or hindrance, prior qualification or inspection. …
According to The Times yesterday the campaign to save the apostrophe has ended. If we are not sure whether someone has said, Their mothers walked off. or Their mother’s walked off. we can ask for clarification: Both their mothers or just her mother? When we read these words it is unlikely that we will be …
First there was the volunteer coast-guard who was dismissed for failing to follow procedures before scrambling down off the edge of a cliff to rescue a girl who was hanging on by her finger nails. Apparently he should first have found a rope and a secure point to which to attach the rope. Clearly there …
