Tony Blair made the same mistake. Faced with a ‘Big Beast’ in his entourage who needed to have his ego assuaged, he gave Derry Irvine the historic role of Lord Chancellor.

Kitted out

Madeleine McCann would be seven years old today. All across Britain there are other little girls celebrating their seventh birthday – and it is a matter of supreme indifference to all except those

A very relieved Raccoon is back behind the keyboard again. Five long days and even longer nights during which the only sniff of a keyboard that I got was a

BROWNTAXER was a Money Cat, with funds that he would “merge”;
fact, he is the most imprudent cat that ever had the urge
to tax from farthings

Robert Louis Stevenson

The last time a maverick thundered across the Cambridgeshire fens and requested the support of the

“had the best imaginable playing field going into an election. A parlous economic state. Politics reeling from an expenses scandal.

I adore the hilariously jingoistic tone of the Express headline.

“UK faces massive bill to bail out Europe’s collapsing economies.”

Perfect, it is a very

They mosey along from week to week, answering the odd phone call, overseeing an occasional by-election.

Then every five years they have an intense burst

Bill Sampson a British Army officer and his trusty sidekick Chung were the scourge of

I swear Mrs Duffy is my Nana re-incarnated. I saw her buried with mine own eyes, but she lives on, slightly diluted.

Nana was a seamstress in Liverpool for the Cunard

That Glasgow is a curiously dependant city existing on the hand outs of industrious citizens way south of the Reiver line is beyond doubt now. The inhabitants have been hand reared in the

The National Union of Journalists has voted to go on strike across the Johnston Group which encompasses such ‘must reads’ as the Scarborough Evening News, the Hemel Hempstead Gazette,

An enterprising job hunting firm MyWorkSearch.co.uk have compiled a list of recommended jobs for MPs should they not be re-elected next week.

Gordon Brown as a

Last week, CMA published a report showing that despite Britain apparently retaining its Triple AAA rating, the market had in fact marked us down to –aa.

Yesterday

Nick Robinson

For those of us who have had