Category: M’s Miscellany

I’D like to take you back 56 years to an afternoon that changed my life. It was the spring of 1965, I was 15 and in the fifth form at … Continue readingShakespeare and me

IT IS 100 years today since the first Rupert episode was published in the Daily Express. Here it is: When I was a child my father worked on the Express and brought home the … Continue readingA century of Rupert Bear

SIR Harold Evans, the legendary newspaper editor, has died in New York at the age of 92. I had the privilege of meeting him in his heyday. I was on … Continue readingHarry Evans – brilliant editor, decent human being

A FEW years ago I visited Darwin in Australia’s Northern Territory. There I learned that it had suffered greatly in the Second World War when the Japanese mounted the largest … Continue readingVJ Day: The town that forgave

THERE is a silver lining to the coronavirus fiasco, which is that the public can now see that there is no such thing as ‘the science is settled’, as the … Continue readingThe science of nonsense

READING in yesterday’s Times that Lord Glendonbrook, the former owner of the airline BMI, is to fund Gilbert & Sullivan productions around the country gladdened my heart. The G & S operettas were … Continue readingConfessions of a G & S Dragoon

ANYONE who watched yesterday’s Australian Open tennis third round match between home challenger Nick Kyrgios and world No 1 Rafael Nadal, of Spain, was privileged. I yield to no one … Continue readingWhy I love Nick Kyrgios

HOW refreshing, when ‘celebrities’ are queueing up to demonstrate their Leftie credentials and denounce Brexit, to find one real star not afraid to take the opposite line. The latest issue … Continue readingBravo Rupert, the Brexit Bear

LONDON was blockaded by a major protest yesterday but there was not the slightest disruption. No one sat for hours in a traffic queue. No one was late getting to … Continue readingBBC simpers with the luvvies as eco warriors wreak havoc

AM I alone in finding this year’s winning one-liner at the Edinburgh Fringe distasteful? Headlined by the BBC and sundry papers as a joke about vegetables, it runs: ‘I keep randomly shouting … Continue readingWhen is a disability joke OK? When it’s told by a Leftie