The English chatterati are besides themselves. The most upmarket national food retail chain dared to suggest to parents what to fill their offspring’s suitcase with as they venture off to uni this Autumn. Specifically related to a storecupboard essentials [https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-6159227/Supermarkets-troll-Waitrose-upmarket-list-student-storecupboard-essentials.html]

What did your prospect do when a hole first appeared in their hull? This week the Russian Soyuz spaceship, happily docked on their side of the International Space Station, sprang a leak. Or so they thought when oxygen pressure levels dropped. The initial theory that a tiny piece of meteoroid

Chuckle chuckle. My Boy Donny under fire, this time with an Administration insider bleating to an opposing paper. The headline whizzed round the world. “I am part of the resistance”. Whatever any degree of dysfunction, this anonymous writing triggered fevered speculation as to the author. Tantalisingly “he” was described as

An English proposal this week seeks to replicate what’s been happening in New York (and elsewhere) for a decade or so. There, any retail takeaway or dining place (with at least three outlets) became mandated to publish calories alongside every menu item. My experience there renders me scathing of

This week in England is the last of the traditional long summer holiday. Before the big back to school for the new academic year. I saw a magazine show feature how the staycation trend has boomed lately. Jetting off to The Med now so passé. Tourist pounds sterling flood into

> “Sorry, sir, could you help me out with 22p?” The shopping streets of urban Britain can resemble an obstacle course in avoiding groups of intimidating beggars. The police instruct citizens not to give them anything. Apparently seeking to quell the current frightening trend for such monies to get spent on