Priscilla would refuse to go for a walk in the daylight….

A big increase in the number of violent dog-on-dog attacks, particularly in urban areas, has been

Sex and Religion have long been entwined. Raw instinct and moral intervention. There is some sympathy for the view that religion was invented in order to control and constrain sexual activity. Certainly the Church

The tentacles of France’s obsession with equality run deep. It was originally an equality of the sexes and equality of the social status that was envisaged and enshrined in French law, long before the

A Frenchman who is taking a commendable interest in English political blogs asked me the other evening why so many of the blogs professed to be Libertarian. It was a good question, and one I struggled to

Those of us of a certain vintage remember walking to school. Everyone did it. Most of our parents didn’t own a car anyway. If they did own a car they certainly wouldn’t have taken

If you had met the team of people supporting Julian Huppert’s campaign in Cambridge for a seat in parliament, as I did, you would possibly have the same impression of him that I do. Only a muppet

Stuart Bell has been the Labour MP for Middlesbrough for 27 years. The good people of Middlesbrough have put him back in parliament year after year in grateful thanks – for what?

During the past

Wot we need like, in my ‘umble opinion, is a little respectability. Respectability can be purchased, off the shelf. It is surprisingly cheap and available.

Cheap for good reason, for it is quite sham of

At the core of the government’s plans for a Big Society is the belief that people across the country will diligently take up voluntary work in their local communities once the bureaucracy of an over-bearing state has been