Why all this hullabaloo over Jacko?
10:26am Tuesday 7th July 2009
SO, today will see the funeral of Michael Jackson and we shall witness what one commentator on the BBC described as “the biggest outpouring of pretend grief since the death of Princess Diana”.
Have your say »Tenderness after a burst of profanity
10:18am Tuesday 30th June 2009
WHILE sitting out in the back garden with a book the other day, I witnessed a charming episode in human relationships. A joiner and his lad were fitting a new lock and door handle on one of the old cottages nearby.
Don’t bank on a new Speaker
11:07am Tuesday 23rd June 2009
I’M looking forward to spending some of the August holiday in Yorkshire and Durham and this year I will also make a trip west to Coniston to visit the grave of one of my great heroes – the philosopher and historian RG Collingwood.
Supposedly a poet, so show it
12:07pm Tuesday 16th June 2009
EENY, meeny, miny mo; put the baby on the po... I apologise for this lurch into poetry, but I have been sorely provoked by the new Poet Laureate, Carol Ann Duffy, whose first effort since her appointment is called Politics and starts like this: “How it makes of your face a stone that aches to weep, of your heart a fist, clenched or thumping, sweating blood, of your tongue an iron latch with no door.”
This global hoodwink just goes on
11:38am Tuesday 9th June 2009
PROPAGANDA, disinformation, nonsense and bare-faced lies continue to pour out of the mouths of the global warming fanatics. They are not even qualified to issue their propaganda.
Why this lot shouldn’t get a look in
10:52am Tuesday 2nd June 2009
THE BNP’s new smart suits don’t fool anybody.
My boss has got it wrong over this lot
9:24am Tuesday 26th May 2009
WHAT is the Archbishop of Canterbury for? I sometimes think he’s just here to tease us, to wind us all up.
Greedy MPs: go for their soft spot...
10:34am Tuesday 19th May 2009
WE were on holiday in Portugal when the story broke about MPs’ expenses, so there was plenty of time to drool over the lurid reports of the scandal in the papers.
‘With this weirdness I thee wed’
11:00am Tuesday 12th May 2009
WE’RE just coming into the weddings season here at St Michael’s, in the City of London. I hope I don’t have to endure a repeat of last year’s shenanigans.
Equality Bill missing real point
9:56am Tuesday 5th May 2009
HARRIET Harman, former pupil of premier academy St Paul’s School and niece of the Countess of Longford, is introducing a new Equality Bill – and nobody laughs.
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