Watching the fly-on-the-wall documentary Police Intercepters on 5* tonight, it’s impossible not to think that the English justice system is not fit for purpose. In one [...]

Boris Johnson© Wikimedia / Snowmanradio / Off2riorob London Mayor Boris Johnson may yet come to regret getting involved in the decision to pull an advert for the [...]

The statue of Nelson Mandela in Parliament Square, London© Gavin Drake Nelson Mandela has died, it has been confirmed tonight. Madiba, as he was known, was the first [...]

Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne(© HM Treasury – used with permission (Open Government Licence)) “The Chancellor is expected to…” [...]

The Tesco Hudl© Tesco PLC I don’t know how Tesco’s highly-rated but super-hidden budget tablets, the Hudl, got their name. But I’m beginning to think that [...]

Bumph from SSE I have just received two identical letters from my gas and electricity supplier SSE (or, SSE Energy Supply Ltd and Southern Electric Gas Ltd, to give the [...]

Kipper Tie© stockfreeimages.com “What came first, the chicken or the egg?” That’s a question that has baffled scientists for years (answer: the chicken). [...]

I’ve worked in media relations. Like many hacks I crossed the journalistic river and sold out to the bigger rewards available in PR. But a couple of years ago I did a [...]

There are lots and lots and lots and lots and lots and lots of steps in Nazareth. But it seems somebody has a more positive view of them than me: [...]

The Old City of Jerusalem sounds pretty much like any Middle-Eastern city: the sound of market traders in a crowded suq competing with incessant tour guides – some [...]