Colin Robertson

6 days ago | thesun.co.uk | Colin Robertson

HOUSTON, we have a problem. An intergalactic pyjama party of excitable female celebrities appears to be hurtling towards space. Oh wait, it’s even worse than we thought . . . now they’re coming back to Earth. As UFOs go, Katy Perry and her fellow NASAssists on their Mission To Nowhere was quite the spectacle. Here was a group of some of the most privileged women on the planet being shot into orbit to become the most privileged women in space.

2 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Colin Robertson

GOOD news is scarce right now as Donald the Doofus vandalises the entire planet. But one tiny ray of sunshine has managed to burst through the gloom — Benidorm is back. The TV show that did for the mobility scooter what Knight Rider did for the Pontiac Firebird is being booked for another outing on ITV. And I’ll raise a glass of sangria to that. But producers had better move fast — not just to secure the services of the actors who gave us Iberia icons like Madge, Geoff and Kenneth.

3 weeks ago | thesun.co.uk | Colin Robertson

HAVE you ever heard of an “under- seat cabin bag”? Because I hadn’t until I looked at the ticket for my upcoming family holiday and discovered easyJet has conjured up yet another wheeze to extract more of our cash. Now, instead of taking your usual cabin bag on board for free and shoving it in the overhead compartment, it must fit UNDER your seat, and therefore be about the size of a pencil case. Taking my normal-sized holdall, I learn, will set me back a not insignificant £70.

3 weeks ago | policymagazine.ca | Colin Robertson |Robert Kaplan

|In Featured Review, Policy SpecialWaste Land: A World in Permanent CrisisBy Robert D. KaplanPenguin Random House/January 2025Reviewed by Colin RobertsonApril 1, 2025We find ourselves, writes Robert Kaplan in Waste Land: A World in Permanent Crisis, in an “exceedingly fragile phase” of technological and political transition, with no assurance of a happy ending. Our world is more anxious, more claustrophobic, more interconnected than ever before.

1 month ago | policymagazine.ca | Colin Robertson

Canadians and Americans have a mutual interest in fighting Donald Trump’s trade war, writes Colin Robertson/ShutterstockBy Colin RobertsonMarch 16, 2025With the major preoccupation of Canada’s new Carney government being Donald Trump’s trade war, one immediate priority should be to complement our current ‘top-level’ advocacy with a ‘bottom-up’ approach that enlists Americans in this fight.