What exactly is the point of Eurovision? It can’t be about the music. Britain, the nation that gifted the world…

It was shortly after my fifteenth birthday that I discovered the music of The Beatles. A school friend and I…

Being born, shall we say, under a different star, there are no official Christmas celebrations in our house. Sure, it’s…

Is it time for the wandering Jews to once again pack up and go? It’s a question that has been…

Back in 2009, when the Labour government piloted a voluntary biometric identity card, I signed up immediately. In fact –…

There was a palpable feeling of euphoria across my home city of Manchester when the Gallagher brothers finally buried years…

It’s been forty years since I took my A-levels. Yet one particular dream still gatecrashes my sleep with irritating regularity:…

The UK has a peerless reputation for producing some of the catchiest and most imaginative pop music on the planet.…

Controversy surrounding the live-action version of Snow White, which is released on Friday, suggests there is little likelihood of a…

Can the passage of time ever assuage parental guilt? After all, brooding over what can’t be changed is a pointless…

You can tell a lot about a person by their reaction to traffic wardens. Those of a mellow, reflective bent…

Of the many characters created by the peerless Victoria Wood, one creation in particular lingers in the mind: namely the…

Merry Christmas – or perhaps, I should say, Season’s Greetings. The festive period can be something of a minefield for…