An object lesson in parting words as you fling open the door to that harsh, cruel world. Tantrumtastical.

Richard Peppiatt leaves the comforting embrace [Ed. Are you sure?] of employment with the Daily Star,

Senior Civil Servants – you have to love ‘em don’t you? For months now they have been urged to find ways to save money in their departments. Some have responded by ‘cutting front line services’, others have

Those with long memories will remember the Grosvenor Square demonstration in 1968. I was walking down Oxford Street, window shopping at the time, an innocent enough occupation. Unfortunately, I had the misfortune to be accompanied by my

Last week I reported on the curious case of the breast milk ice-cream on sale in London’s Covent Garden.

Ice-cream confectioner Matt O’Connor was confident his take on the “miracle of motherhood” and priced at

Seven years after the death of Princess Diana sparked a national outpouring of grief in floral format, tightly bundled in the non-biodegradable ‘wrap’ that florists use, rather than true cellophane, the ‘future compost’ tributes were still being

Jonathan Jones at the Guardian has excelled himself. He decided to turn his artistic critical faculty to a photograph of Mohammad Sidique Khan and Shehzad Tanweer – the two suicide bombers who took so many innocent lives

Gildas on The year of the Revolutions

“Why are all our institutions running for cover and distancing themselves from the Gaddifi regime when it is has always been clear what kind of nutcase he is?

I see the SAS has forsaken the nightspots of Hereford and nipped over to Libya whilst we were asleep in our beds. They brought back 150 civilian oil workers in danger of being held as human hostages.

One of the duties of a teacher is to ensure that their young charges are not a liability to other workers when they go out into the big wide world. Especially when they are teaching them how

The lofty Vera is currently splashing round a swimming pool in Kampala in between discussing Ugandan matters; a welcome change from trying to hustle work as a humble ‘door tenant’ or ‘Barmaid’ at the prestigious Tooks chambers.