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It is tempting to see Gideon Falter as a modern-day Rosa Parks, an ordinary citizen who has shone a light on injustice by asserting an inalienable...
As we go about our daily business today, we will all have a mixture of macro and micro matters on our minds. These might range from conflict in the...
“Falsehood flies, and truth comes limping after it, so that when men come to be undeceived, it is too late; the jest is over, and the tale hath had...
Two months ago, I wrote about how I was part of a small syndicate attempting to buy our local pub, which has now been closed for more than six months....
Last night, eight students of diverse backgrounds and specialisms, ranging from a Kolkata-born postgraduate studying for a master’s in applied...
Can there be a better metaphor for the disconnected, self-absorbed nature of British politics than the picture posted by Liz Truss on Easter Sunday? ...
There are more than 90 regulatory bodies in the UK, and these cost the taxpayer around £4bn a year to run. The purpose of regulation, according to...
Are we destined to live in a post-idiom world? Will that bird in the hand get cancelled? Will any common saying that references birds, dogs, cats,...
Has there ever been a story that has made you more nauseous about the state of British public life than the saga of Frank Hester, Diane Abbott, the 10...
It pains me to say it, because I love dogs and I love Claire Balding even more, but I couldn’t help feeling on Sunday night that Crufts, the largest...
In the lexicon of public relations, there is a crude but evocative expression to describe the act of trying to make something appear what it most...
The official visitor website for Totnes offers plenty of options for those looking for diversions in this small town in the heart of South Devon....
The news that the BT Tower, one of the most adored, storied and globally recognisable features of the London skyline, has been bought by an American...
“Too many have been killed”. Prince William’s stark and unarguable observation about the ongoing conflict in the Middle East is not the most...
Is it possible that ageing is a thing that just happens to other people? We don’t always see ourselves as others do, and while we may exhibit the...
Just after 5pm on Tuesday evening, I found myself alone in my car, dissolved in tears. The news had just broken that the radio presenter Steve Wright...
Earlier this week, after a hard day shirking at home, my neighbour and I decided that we deserved some relief from the interminable darkness of...
In the 83rd minute of Manchester City’s game at Tottenham Hotspur last Friday night, Kyle Walker found himself in a foot race with Tottenham’s...
Just before last Christmas, Bill Gates posted a picture of himself on Instagram for his 8.9 followers to enjoy. There he was, dressed down in a...
And so Paula Vennells joins a list that reads like the dinner party from Hell: Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall, Naseem Hamed, Harvey Weinstein, Fred Goodwin,...
She is unlikely to be named Time magazine’s Person of the Year. And she’s been overlooked in this week’s New Year’s Honours List. But step...
Did you know that the Government has, for the past decade, had a “Happiness Unit”? No, me neither. But since 2014, a small detachment of public...
Lenny and I had one of those meaningful father-and-son moments in the run-up to Christmas. It was 4.30am, and Lenny, the dachshund named by readers of...
“The following programme contains very strong language and adult themes”. This sober warning is followed by the playful striking up of the tuba,...
“[I’m] 60 next birthday, going to reach an age where I can’t do it. Now is the right time to do it.” What could Nigel Farage have been...
So far this morning, I’ve managed to get my printer to work, I’ve changed a fuse, completed an online purchase and sorted out the timer on my...
“Never say never,” said Nigel Farage this week when he was asked by one of his fellow contestants on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here whether...
I think we can all agree that Sunday’s march against antisemitism was a resounding success. Tens of thousands of people of all persuasions –...
A little more than seven million people spent a major chunk of Sunday night watching the first show in this season’s I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out...
In the penultimate episode of the first series of the Netflix drama Fauda , which chronicles the undercover operations of Israeli special forces in...
Sounding remarkably like a contestant on a reality TV show, Charlotte Owen, the newly ennobled, 30-year-old Baroness Owen of Alderley Edge, began her...
It is hard to remember a time of greater political, social and cultural consternation. Take the past weekend, and its dizzying kaleidoscope of...
Nicky Haslam, at 84 years old, is not one to hide his light under a bushel. His own website says that his “greatest legacy is his undeniable talent...
The Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC), which organises the marches across Britain in support of a ceasefire in Gaza, has some noble ambitions,...
Back in a time, long ago, when the world was a less rabidly opinionated, febrile and fractured place, I was having a discussion about the latest...
I know that the Covid inquiry, even in the context of what’s going on in the world at the moment, is still a seminal event, but I can’t help...
I met one of my best friends for dinner last night. “I don’t want to talk about it,” he said firmly, as we sat down. I knew immediately what he...
What are those telltale signs of getting older again? That’s right. Short-term memory lapses, listening to Radio 2, joining the National Trust and,...
At the risk of sounding like David Baddiel, it was possible to think, as a spectator at Arsenal’s football match with Manchester City last Sunday,...
At a different time, and in a different context, a piece of graffiti which says “Free Palestine” would not automatically be considered offensive...
I was once asked what was the most stupid thing I’ve ever done. My answer was swift and unequivocal: smoking my first cigarette. And the second most...
Accrington Market Hall gets 3.5 stars on Trip Advisor, and comments from visitors range from “hidden gem” to “very run down”. But, like many...
Do you remember the Noughties? If you do, you obviously weren’t there, drunk on the heady fumes of hedonism, falling in and out of nightclubs,...
It is not entirely clear whether Elon Musk was referring to the investigation into Russell Brand’s sexual misconduct when he posted at the weekend...
I have often wondered what it would be like if Twitter came to life. What if all those mean, disobliging, and casually abusive missives weren’t...
First thing Saturday morning, my phone pinged with a message from a neighbour on our village WhatsApp group to say that one of her house guests had...
First, we had the “Red Wall”, which Boris Johnson blustered through to win the hearts, minds and votes in traditional Labour areas and claim the...