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This is the script of a piece I wrote for RTE’s ‘World Report” As a rule, I’m not that keen on the English seaside and loathe the rain...

The Royal Navy sailing towards Jersey may have had something to do with Labour’s shellacking in Hartlepool : after all, according to...

The unlikely sight of a massive Arctic walrus on a Welsh beach. Deadly heatwaves in India. Plans for a new US military base in Alaska....

The Government’s new foreign policy paper is both martial and maritime, drenched in salt spray as we choose the open sea over Europe. So,...

Oprah’s long, gripping, infinitely sad interview with Meghan and Harry was more than an outpouring of hurt. It had a purpose – to...

Global Britain: a Pacific nation ? You could argue that there’s little that says “Global Britain” so well as traveling half way round the...

Boris bowed down before the Death Cult The counter has ticked up relentlessly until we reached a headline-triggering row of zeroes , each...

The stands have been built, the capital will just about close down, the National Guard are standing by in case of armed insurrection. The...

When dawn breaks over Washington, democracy will be weighed in the balance. The storming of the Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters is...

In one of my last programmes I coined the term ‘peschismo’, fish flavoured machismo, to capture the political pungency of squabbles over...

“Are you going to resign, minister?” The raw London accent of the late and much missed Paul Lambert, aka Gobby, BBC fixer extraordinaire,...

Until I get a proper berth, I'm going to be bothering you with a few occasional mumblings. We don’t call them news ‘stories’ for nothing....