‘Is Nicky Morgan too “normal” to be the next prime minister?’ asked someone in the Daily Telegraph. That would make…

I lost my husband on the way from Malabar. He is easily lost. We had been talking about the verb…

A great discovery has been made by Dr Paul Booth, a fellow of Keele University. It is a 14th-century example…

‘Tweeting’s like text messaging, isn’t it?’ said my husband confidently, though not, as usual, from any knowledge of the matter.…

In a wonderfully dry manual of theology on my husband’s bookshelves, written in Latin and printed in Naples in the…

Al Jazeera, the Qatari broadcaster, is going to use refugee instead of migrant in its English output. ‘The umbrella term…

We reached peak Charlie in 2012, when 5,571 baby boys were given the name. There were only 4,642 last year.…

There was a time when my husband, who often addresses the television, would habitually react to Edward Heath’s appearance on…

‘That’s unnecessarily crude,’ said my husband, turning momentarily from the television and improving the shining minute by setting the whisky…

I had never heard the Country (Red Dirt) singer Wade Bowen before, although his latest album Hold my Beer (Vol 1)…

‘What about the moon Tracey?’ asked my husband facetiously when an astronomer on the wireless, talking of Pluto’s moon Charon,…