Some gems in this morning’s Sunday Times £paywall edition of the Alastair Darling book “Back from the Brink”

In the aftermath of this crisis many have claimed authorship of what proved to be

Remember Mark Duggan? The family man whose partner Semone was so devoted to him that she had three of her four children by him:

“Mark was a good dad, He loved his

This is another subject that cannot actually be rationally discussed.

Any mention of “facts” will be met with an increasingly histrionic barrage of “counter-facts” and allegations of

Shock statistics from the European College of Neuropsychopharmacology claim that 164 million Europeans – 38.2% of the entire population of Europe are suffering from a mental disorder.

Given that 43% of Europeans voted in the

I give in. No longer will I try to make sense of this world. The entire country is nuts.

Two neighbours live in £1 million pound properties separated by a spacious courtyard – and I do

One of the defining features of the comments section of political blogs is the propensity for reasoned debate to slide into hysterical abuse. Frequently the comments can be better than the original blog posts as commentators relieve

The swivel eyed, snaggle toothed Ms Smudd, dressed for a daytime excursion.

As my teenage daughter turned her eyes towards mine and held my gaze in her terror, it was then