Barometer
Get out of jail There were 8 prison escapes in the year to March. All were recaptured within a month.…
Councils of despair
Last month India managed to land a spacecraft on the moon for a third of the price of refurbishing Hammersmith…
Taxing times
No. 10 quickly asserted that the meltdown at National Air Traffic Services was a technical issue rather than a cyber…
Letters
Murder mystery Sir: I once made a diagnosis of a very rare condition too late to cure the patient. She…
Hot air
Next Tuesday, London’s Ulez scheme will be expanded. A new network of cameras filming the traffic movements of millions of…
Identity crisis
This week Norfolk and Suffolk constabularies confessed that, replying to a freedom of information request, they had managed to release…
On board
Over decades of service as a floating hotel, the Bibby Stockholm has accommodated all manner of people. It has housed…
