I have a lot of Jewish friends, and I have noticed that when I visit a couple, the lady of the house never offers me a cup of tea. It is always the husband who does it. [...]

My dad taught me to swim the old fashioned way by throwing me into the water. It worked too. I’m a very confident swimmer. Although trying to get out of the sack was a [...]

A nun and a lawyer die on the same day and arrive at heaven’s gate together. St Peter is there to greet them and reassures them that they have been expected. “Follow [...]

We had a congregational lunch at church last week. Rather than the usual sandwiches and sausage rolls, the vicar had cooked up a huge batch of spaghetti carbonara. Which was [...]

Don't let people tell you that you should be miserable, just so a PR company can sell something. [...]

Toby Young’s decision to resign as a non-executive director of the embryonic quango Office for Students is to be welcomed. As is his “unreserved apology” for his past [...]

Yesterday, during an interview with Ed Stourton on BBC Radio Four’s Sunday programme, I mentioned a video produced by church leaders in Fiji (listen here, from 12’22”). [...]

Professor Nick Hardwick is chair of the Parole Board.© gov.uk The Parole Board has come in for a lot of attention in the past few days, after its decision to release serial [...]

Police-issued photo of Theodore Johnson. In 1981 Theodore Johnson killed his wife, Yvonne by hitting her over the head with a vase before pushing her off the balcony of their [...]

Police-issued photo of “Black Cab Rapist” John Worboys The Parole Board have decided that John Worboys can be released from his indeterminate sentence. He was convicted [...]