Which is in itself a thought provoking question. Or is it the Crown Prosecution Service, which decides upon charges to be brought, which is determined to be the catalyst for unrest?

We have here two incidents, both

We need one of those endles adverts – the ‘just two pounds a week would save’ variety. In this case ‘just two pounds a week to the Treasury would cut the debt mountain more effectively than the coalition’

A Parisian friend sent me this picture of a little cottage on the French coast that they were thinking of purchasing as a holiday cottage. They wanted Mr G to look at it and tell them whether

Sam Smith makes the case for sacking Jo Williams immediately, withdrawing her DBE and ostracising her from society.

It has been said that for evil to triumph all that is necessary is for good men to do nothing.

We hear a lot about “rights” these days. I would argue that save in very rare circumstances where the very safety of society is in peril, every man or woman has the right to live, but more than

45 years ago to-day the illegal Wilson régime proscribed the best wireless stations in the land (well, actually just off the land) and renamed the B.B.C.’s stations in line with the Labour Party’s

Not sure about the Latin grammar, but there you go. I have scribed some mumbling carping about LOCOG and the “Olympic Family” and the general bloated and often corrupt corporate culture that goes with it before,

Let us imagine for a moment that you are successful in your career. The bank balance is piling up nicely, you have an offer on your modest suburban mock-Tudor, and your wife has fallen in love with

In the caring, sharing newsroom of The Sun, they know what sells newspapers. And what sells newspapers keeps the advertisers happy. And keeping the advertisers happy keeps your job for another month.

So they dispense with

I have been watching the rowing at the Olympics. The squad has done Britain proud, and it makes me all emotional. You see, long, long ago in a land far, far, away, your humble scribe had

A few months ago I went to see the English film version of one of Stieg Larsson’s excellent novels, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. In the climax of the film there is a scene in which a

I have been reading the case of ‘DD’ as she is known, yet another excellent example of the thinking applied to decisions made by the Court of Protection.

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