The Week
Diary
Another week, another whitewash. The latest chunk of culture to be painted out of existence is ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, Queen’s…
Diary
Lee Anderson, deputy chairman of the Conservative party, popped a few monocles by saying asylum seekers reluctant to stay on…
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…
Diary
The temperature has hit 40°C in Crete, where I am writing this, and although there have been no fires, nothing…
Barometer
Scout’s honour Thousands of teenagers were evacuated from the World Scout Jamboree in South Korea as flooding, a heatwave and…
Trumped up
The latest charges against Donald Trump will do nothing to deter his many supporters within the Republican party. On the…
Diary
To think I once thought cricket dull. For more than 40 days and 40 nights, I have been gripped by…
Banking crisis
The Coutts scandal can be traced back to the day, two years ago, when the bank proudly announced that it…
Diary
In this summer of sporting dramas, every patriotic sports fan likes to think he’s done his bit to help. I…
