Well!  What a year!  I can’t really start this “Cheery Christmas Round Robin” any other way than to acknowledge how four words have transformed our lives in 2012! It all began when, while we were supposed to

The lawyer looked very tired. It was a lacklustre room buried in the depths of London’s Middle Temple. It was not a particularly prestigious set of Chambers, but it was respectable. The room was a bit

On the evening of 19^th September the chief whip Andrew Mitchell toddled out of No. 10, and trundled with his bike up to the security gates at the end of Downing Street. It is common ground that he

Licking their lips and salivating over images of grieving Mothers and frightened children.  More than 10,000 people were shot dead in the America last year – but 26, in one place, not just children, but infants even, oh and a suicide thrown in

Reality TV, that neanderthal peek into freak lives, is going to explore the morbidly obese on Wednesday night. Have dinner early, you won’t feel like eating later.

I am fascinated by some of the statistics that have emerged

As through this world I wander
I meet lots of funny men.
Some’ll rob you with a six-gun
And some with a fountain pen.
-Woody Guthrie, “The Ballad of Pretty Boy Floyd”

Parliament, in the ‘robust’ shape of Margaret Hodge,