It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression.

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Few stewards in the service of the public can have been asked to rearrange the deckchairs as many times as those employed on board the currently named ‘Public Guardian’.

The Office of the Public

Proof that child safety is more about protecting children from the perceived extreme risk of pedophiles and similar abuse than about protecting them from accidents is shown by this quote from the CoE policy document on

Indeed it can! Pearse Doherty, Gerry Adams’ ‘made man’, otherwise known as the Sinn Féin candidate in the Donegal South West By-election is leading by a stunning majority.

Gerry Adams and Martin McGuiness were this afternoon

Johnny, the 17-year-old, is upstairs with a horrific cold. No wonder: he spent the whole of Wednesday out on the street in sub-zero temperatures, being “kettled” by the

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That is such an emotive headline – and such has been the response in certain areas of the lucrative Personal Injury legal profession.

In his speech to the Commons, Kenneth Clarke detailed the extent to which the Legal

If ‘the cap fits, wear it’ goes the saying – but this cap will fit less than 12% of those seeking to enter the United Kingdom.

In her Commons statement yesterday, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, announced

“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison

All around you people are striving to avoid failure. In all

You’d need a heart of stone not to laugh. I’ve tried getting angry, tried to rant – I can’t. They are like winsome toddlers taking their first steps – they fall, they tumble backwards, they

So the goverment wants to find out how happy the country is via statistics. Dry statistics will never show the state of happiness of the country. It it is too ephemeral.

Happiness is

News from Manchester Airport that from this month they will be testing a new “Eye Scanner”, which will read our irises and help to “combat the war against terror”. This comes only months after the airport introduced the

A bonus prize today for the Liverpool Echo with their headline:

“Former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney’s divorce lawyer to go to House of Lords.”

No doubt the Wiltshire and Gloucestershire Standard will be firing back with:

“Charles Wales’

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In the crowded field of the economically suicidal, Liverpudlian councils are renown for their ability to rise above the common herd and lead by example.

The local MP is Bill Esterson, an ex-Medway Councillor, who the