Pan-European immigration to the UK currently runs at around 50,000 a year. A third of the net immigration – that is the number of migrants that arrive in the UK minus the number of British citizens who

It is an unexplained mystery that many hard-hitting interviews by Eddie Mair with left of centre politicians have disappeared from the unbiased BBC’s archives.

After much painstaking archeological research, a few fragments of these interviews have been recovered. We

So the first of the Yewtree branches has crashed to the ground, a sound virtually unheard in the forest of bad news today.

The ‘famous actress’ (I had to look her up such a household name was she…) (we are

After getting on for 7 years, the Inspector Gadget blog had become an institution in the Blogosphere. A window on the world of ‘canteen culture’; the real personalities behind the bland politically correct sound bites that emanated from the

No Tax up to £10,000 annual income.

Fuel duty increase scrapped.

Cheaper Beer.

Tax Free child care to be introduced.

Equity loan up to 20% of value of homes up to £600,000 interest free for five years.

White Van Man must be ecstatic – and busy stocking up on dodgy cigarettes….oh

Remember when the Guardian first started making allegations that the News of the World had hacked Millie Dowler’s phone and deleted messages? Remember how it soon became ’murdered Millie’s’ phone, just in case we had missed the point that this was a heartless

Spotted by Saul.

This is where I came in, or rather where I originally fell down the rabbit hole…..it seems a lifetime ago.

Nazir Ahmed and Phillipa Curtis. Nazir on the M.1; Phillipa on the A.40. Both driving at 70 miles

Ping! went the computer in the middle of the night as a rash of correspondents e-mailed to warn me that yet another Savile report was out. Several pointed to the Guardian headline published a dutiful couple of minutes after

We don’t often get the chance to plumb the Delphian depths of the Investigative Journalist’s crania. Reading the Pollard report transcripts as Nick Pollard gamely ventured into that philosopher’s bourn known as Merion

International Women’s Day is with us again, our annual chance to shriek how unfair life is…we do soldier manfully womanfully on the other 364 days of the year with narry a word of complaint. Today is our day, so let rip ladies.

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I was nearly tempted out of my sick bed by a chance reading of a Guardian piece which claimed to have uncovered 43,00 – that’s forty three thousand in case you glossed over the figures – cases of child abuse in a 21

What? You don’t know who Jiminy Cricket is? Shame on you!

Jiminy Cricket was the voluble arthropod who insisted on speaking truth to the lying and famously long nosed puppet on a string. Pinocchio’s enforced conscience, whether he liked

It’s half a million quid’s worth of my property, or it belongs to the community? When did Graffiti become so valuable? When the Art world got involved that’s when.

When Banksy, the Über-cool underground graffiti merchant decide to deface the wall of Poundland in Haringey