I shall be away for a few days.

Regular posters are welcome to continue their good natured banter; unfortunately, I have to put comment moderation on for new posters, and there will be no one to release them until my return.

Ivan, who had severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy, was taken ill overnight and died in hospital this morning.

The sadness in the Cameron household this morning must be immense. 

I am full of admiration for those households that manage to care for a child

The early morning edition of The Daily Mail on-line carried an interesting story juxtaposing the the case of Stuart Lubbock with that of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The obvious connection, that both cases are of deep concern to ex-solicitor Tony

On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to “raise the bar” for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in.

The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home

In The Sunday Times today (22^nd February 2009) we read of Mr. Brown’s intention to rubber stamp – “as part of a blitz of initiatives designed to save the banking system” measures including “Permission for the Bank of

Aberystwyth is quite simply the most depressing place it has ever been my misfortune to live in. I am told that the sun shines for ten days every year, in August, which coincides with the University recess, so I never

 Prawo Jazdy had left a string of some 50 driving offences logged on police computers in Ireland; each time he was stopped he cunningly gave a different false address.

Eventually the Garda decided to take a closer look at the reckless

Samuel Reid-Wentworth is just the latest victim of the fashionable concept of ‘care in the community’; with pejorative and value laden words like ‘a cowardly attack’ and ‘pre-meditated killing’ ringing in his ears, hopefully he has finally found the treatment

A Scottish pensioner is suing RBS for negligence in preparing the information which persuaded him to buy to buy £1.282 worth of RBS shares – which are now worth a paltry £120. He claims that had they told

One of the Vendors at this week’s New York Toy Fair is offering the “Smash-Me Bernie,” a Madoff look alike doll that wears a devil-red suit and carries a pitchfork.

It comes with its own hammer – so you can pulverise

ACAS have just discovered that they live in Europe.

Having finally got round to reading the small print on the contracts at the Lindsey oil refinery, they have grudgingly agreed that TOTAL had not broken employment law by bringing in Italian

Back when Noah was a lad and I was around 4 foot tall, I learned some valuable lessons.

I learnt  how to ‘visualise’ large numbers by counting out 169 at a time of my aunt’s long discarded jet beads into neat

Lord Pearson of Rannoch invited the Dutch Freedom Party MP Geert Wilders to present his controversial film Fitna to the House of Lords. Highly regarded amongst some factions, Fitna is a film attempting to explain the divisions in society caused by the Koran and Islamists.

Wilders alleges that the Koran has ‘proven’ links

This week we have all been able to watch as some ‘former’ bank executives have wriggled, squirmed, bleated and whined under aggressive questioning by the Treasury Select Committee; the qualifications, practices, manoeuvres, motives, fine-dining habits and honesty of these

Robert Preston, the BBC’s self appointed PR man for Gordon Brown, has been busy tonight following Sir James Crosby’s dramatic resignation a few minutes before Prime Minister’s Question Time.

He says that John Moore’s revelations that he was sacked because he