Remember clause 17 of the Digital Economy Act? Probably not. Boring stuff isn’t it?

That’s the one which would allow the British Phonographic Industry – no wonder they go by the acronym of the BPI –

Amyas Morse, the Comptroller and Auditor General, has limited the scope of his audit opinion on the regularity of expenditure in the 2009-10 Resource Accounts that report the costs of the MPs’ Expenses Scheme. This is the first audit

I confess that I missed this scintillating piece of news yesterday; it emerged not so much with an earth shattering drum roll but more of a B-Flat squeak on an old violin.

The annals of history have been

Michael Jackson was afforded the same ‘cleansing’ treatment. He ‘wasn’t a paedophile’; he might have slept with the odd little boy, perhaps he did show ‘adult’ books to 12 year old boys, but he wasn’t

A sad e-mail from a dear friend who has already been visited by more unwarranted tragedy than anyone should have to survive, arrived to warn me that the storm clouds of imminent disaster were about to close

There is no cut in front line services occasioned by Gordon Brown’s profligate spending that is more keenly felt by service users than the absence of Ms Smudd from these pages.

Regrettably, after a

How dare they! We send them half a dozen of our most highly prized gilded testicles, shipped out from our last working airport, prostrate, docile, fenestrated, bearing Frankincense and Myrrh, laden with humiliating apologies and

The 5.49 to Orpington?

Ever since Gordon Brown promised to end Global Warning, the British have dripped and shivered their way through a succession of floods, snow blizzards,

“The moral test of government is how it treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the aged; and

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It wasn’t Howard Flight’s ‘first’ acknowledged gaffe – that was his statement in 2005 that an incoming Conservative government would make deeper cuts than those publicly announced. Michael Howard removed him as a Conservative candidate for that transgression.

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Few stewards in the service of the public can have been asked to rearrange the deckchairs as many times as those employed on board the currently named ‘Public Guardian’.

The Office of the Public

Forget the Celtic Tiger, just in time for Christmas we have Bábógbaby, the Irish Begging Bear.

Invented by Irish entrepeneur, Adrain Devane, the toy is set to be a hit amongst English parents anxious to convey