Back in the later half of last year, I rushed out an ‘emergency’ post, and asked for your help to publicise it.

‘Edna’ of this noble Raccoon Parish had drawn my attention to a Government consultation

I chanced upon a remark in my recent reading that struck me as so callous, so utterly devoid of empathy, that I stopped short. Who had made this remark? A Family Liaison Officer!

As is my wont, I

Blimey! If we ever doubted the veracity of the two statements in my headline, we have only to take a quick run through the media today. Even the various pictures of Nigel Evans MP that are selected by the

UKIP has acted as the Provisional Wing of the Pub Bore Society for some years. Seated on the far stool of political life, they have droned on endlessly about the failings of the big three parties. ‘They’re

It’s the age old argument at dinner tables twixt husband and wife – ‘Who’s telling this story?’ – as husband (I’m biased, so?) interrupts wife halfway through the tale and manages to spoil the punch line…

It has set me thinking. Who actually ‘owns’

The ‘news’ has to be massaged and imbued with emotive content to interest the Media.

That which most of us would consider ‘news’ – citizens jailed without trial or representation; pension funds raided; savings devalued; citizens starved to death; citizens arrested

The Internet has correctly been concerned at what has been perceived as the loss of a ‘right’.  The proposals by the Association of  Chief Police Officers (Acpo) to refuse to release the names of people they arrest in the

I shall probably get myself into dangerous waters here, but that has never bothered me in the past, so I shan’t let it bother me today.

Bitcoins, the beloved alternative currency of the Libertarian movement as espoused by those who are

During the week I had recorded an episode of Piers Morgan’s interview series. A case of nothing else worth recording really – the others I have seen have been a succession of women agonising over some dreadful trauma in

The picture editors were busy yesterday. The winsome portrayals of Madeleine McCann, once the picture of choice if the word paedophilia was to be mentioned in the media, were passed over. The aging shots of Jimmy Savile dusted down again, a

A brave new world commences today. Just as well April Fool’s Day was yesterday, for otherwise you might not have believed it.

From today, in England, your Local Authority will be responsible for ‘supporting your self esteem’

Emma Kingsbury’s children are being driven into ‘child poverty’ by heartless Tory policies. From tomorrow, her housing benefit will be reduced by £15 a week – the so called ‘bedroom tax’.

Emma tells us that ‘she never needed or