N.B. This post was originally written about a mystery, but the mystery is now solved. See the wonderfully worldly description in the comment...

I used to have a teacher who apostrophised everything. That's not to say that he talked to inanimate objects, at least to not to my kno...

The Labour-dominated Commons Public Administration Committee will hold a one-day inquiry later this month into the whole affair. The three ...

I said yesterday that there would be more on Venezuela and I am, occassionally, good for my promises. It's even topical for me, and Ink...

Once upon a time there was a fisherman called Simon. He fell in with a chap called Jesus who nicknamed him The Rock (presumably in preparat...

I was reading this week's copy of The Week and was astonished to discover that:   Brown appealed to voters last weekend I felt that ...

A few weeks ago I was playing poker. My opponent raised, I saw, he put his hand down on the table. I put my (better) hand down on the table...