JAMES McGEE

I should probably pause here, to give the JC haters time to gather up their pitchforks and torches. Game on. I'll meet you all at midnight in the graveyard o...

You mean apart from the 125,000 birthday cards,, over 1,000 presents, a promotion to Honorary Colonel by the Queen, a Royal Mail postmark, a nomination to be...

An absolute legend. Sadly, one of the many victims of covid-19. He will be sorely missed.

Captain Tom Moore, Royal Armoured Corps, veteran of the Burma Campaign in WW2. Aged 99, he decided to try and raise £1000 for the National Health Service to ...

The Orange Loon's at it again. Yeah, I know I seem to refer to him a lot but come on, the man is comedy gold. Once again he was confronted by his nemesis, Ya...

'What about you, Mr President...?'

RIP

Just goes to show that I can still be surprised by a response to one of my early novels. The book was Crow's War, which was set in Afghanistan at the time of...

Out of interest, I checked the online editions of the Guardian. Telegraph and Independent this morning as the flypast was taking place and not one of them wa...

Couldn't let this week go by without reference to the passing of one of Hollywood's greatest screenwriters: William Goldman. If you're a fan of the moving pi...

Smashing interview on the Radio 4 show, The Life Scientific, a few days ago. The host, Jim Al-Khalili, was in conversation with one of my heroes, Professor N...

Sad news in the papers today. Steve Bochco, creator of some of the best and most iconic shows to come out of US television, passed away at the relatively you...

RIP

"Y'know, every great war produces its great hit songs and after each war we like to gather around the piano or the guitar and play these songs. We enjoy the ...

Sad to learn that Robert Hardy passed away today, at the grand age of 91. He was certainly one of our most recognizable actors and greatly admired by both th...

Caught a smashing article in The Times Magazine last weekend: Robert Crampton's Beta Male column. Now, I know I have problems sticking to publishing deadlin...

The death was announced earlier this week of Clare Hollingworth at the age of 105. If the name is not familiar, Hollingworth was one of the truly great war c...