A plague on his disingenuous disguises.

Especially the one he adopted when he came to see my house. It’s in the nature of actors to act. It’s what they ‘do’. I shouldn’t be so surprised.

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Lord Ahmed certainly has an army of supporters. Following my piece this morning on my blog that this mendacious government couldn’t possibly be thinking of reviewing his sentence, the Solicitor-General has kindly found time in

The February edition of HMRC’s thrice-yearly “Employer Bulletin” normally contains a CD of software designed to help small firms deal with their tax obligations. There should be an employee database, tax calculators and automatic form generators. “Install Immediately”, the taxman’s

A HACKER attack on the health records of Gordon Brown and Alex Salmond has sparked a huge security alert.

Confidential computer files on the Prime Minister and Holyrood’s First Minister were illegally targeted along with the records of scores of other

 Yesterday we were treated to the news that Madeleine had her own twitter account. The account was opened on June 30th 2007 – at 7.57am, someone was up early that day. 

 Twitter is the art of describing ‘what you are currently doing’ in 140 characters –

Andorra is only three hours south of here, so we took off on Thursday lunchtime intending to buy a few essential blogging supplies before nightfall. 4 litre bottles of whiskey  for £15, cartons of duty free cigarettes at £20 a time, the little details

I shall be away for a few days.

Regular posters are welcome to continue their good natured banter; unfortunately, I have to put comment moderation on for new posters, and there will be no one to release them until my return.

Ivan, who had severe epilepsy and cerebral palsy, was taken ill overnight and died in hospital this morning.

The sadness in the Cameron household this morning must be immense. 

I am full of admiration for those households that manage to care for a child

The early morning edition of The Daily Mail on-line carried an interesting story juxtaposing the the case of Stuart Lubbock with that of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann.

The obvious connection, that both cases are of deep concern to ex-solicitor Tony

On Sunday, Jacqui Smith said that a new points based system will be used to “raise the bar” for highly skilled migrants to curb the numbers coming in.

The move is part of an immigration crackdown to be unveiled by Home

Aberystwyth is quite simply the most depressing place it has ever been my misfortune to live in. I am told that the sun shines for ten days every year, in August, which coincides with the University recess, so I never

 Prawo Jazdy had left a string of some 50 driving offences logged on police computers in Ireland; each time he was stopped he cunningly gave a different false address.

Eventually the Garda decided to take a closer look at the reckless

It has been a spectacular few weeks for that endangered species, the Whistleblower.

First up was Paul Moore, who had patiently bided his time and delivered a broadside under parliamentary privilege to the Commons Treasury Committee, securing not only the