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From Charles Spurgeon’s sermon “Christ the Cure for Troubled Hearts”: “I hear another one say, ‘But suppose I have committed the unpardonable sin;’ to which I answer, ‘But suppose you have not;’ and there is just as much reason for…

Yes, I acknowledge the defeat.  A source of national shame, and I humbly call on Tony Blair to make Monday a national day of prayer and humiliation.  I console myself only with the thought that, the occasional loss to Wales…

It would be in poor taste to point out to Carl, especially on his birthday, that the headlines on the BBC news site this afternoon reads, “Resurgent Wales see off England” alluding to the Welsh Rugby Union victory (27-18). One reader…

Jeremy Smith’s article in this issue (“Petrolium Pundits“) has provoked a stormy protest. See “We Get Letters” page.

Many scholars assert, de rigeur, that Saint Patrick (Patricius or Padrig) was born in the still Welsh-speaking Northern Kingdom of Strathclyde of Romano-Brythonic stock around 385 AD at a place called Bannavem Taberniae (Banwen), but the best of them maintain this a…

I can indeed confirm that it is the self-proclaimed Greatest Living Englishman’s birthday on Sunday.  But, having posed Del’s questions to him earlier today re. rumours of Springsteen burning and Welsh learning, he quoted to me Ernst Renan’s response when asked by…

Just back from a few days in Chicago. Managed a quick tour of the “Cézanne to Picasso” exhibition at The Art Institute of Chicago. Took the “Admission Free on Tuesday” option, to mingle with the plebs! No point in paying…

While I was at home with my parents last week, my niece (not the Welsh-speaking turncoat) stopped over for Saturday night. While she loves me as (she says) `my uncle from a Roald Dahl book, who’s never grown up and…