…and this was the scene from Salford Quays in Manchester – taken from the car park at the rear of the Ramada Hotel.   © Gavin [...]

Prime Minister David Cameron at the National Memorial Arboretum, Staffordshire, on 5 March 2015 © 2015 Gavin Drake Late last night, the Prime Minister’s director of [...]

A Twitter conversation between a BBC and ITV hack over the threat of court action for non-payment of a birthday party no-show invoice caught my attention. BBC [...]

The precise location of the north-south divide has been difficult to pinpoint with any clarity. Manchester is in the north, of course; unless you’re in the Highlands, in [...]

Writing in the week’s Spectator (cover date 10 January 2015, but online now), the columnist Rod Liddle describes opponents of Ched Evans as “morons”. He [...]

You do sometimes wonder who is running our NHS hospitals. An increasing number of hospitals are declaring Major Incidents in their Accident and Emergency departments saying [...]

It is custom and tradition that the wives of knights are called ladies. It is an honorary title: if your husband is a Sir, then you can be called a lady. And if your husband [...]

Kendra Moriah is a singer. I can’t tell you whether or not she’s a good singer because I’ve not heard any of her songs. She’s probably fantastic and [...]

Daily Star front page on 30th September 2014 “Screaming black eyed child ghost terror” screams the front page of today’s Daily Star with a story of a [...]

The Conservatives are in town – that’s if your town is Birmingham. They are relatively frequent visitors to the Midlands and a few years ago, with a confirmed [...]