They’re all at it! Have they no shame? It’s taxpayers’ money – sofa beds, wide screen televisions, adult films, bathplugs ... bathplugs ? Er...

An issue that will not go away, mainly because politicians across the spectrum cannot or will not address it, is that of currently illegal d...

Or chips. Or burgers, or breakfast cereal: maybe there really is a difference, or perhaps it’s the influence of the Mad Men, of peer pressur...

The Chileans have, apparently, embarrassed Pa Broon by talking about putting money aside in the good times. Music to the ears of David Camer...

Yes, the conclusion of today’s Malaysian Grand Prix was a tad shambolic. No more 1700 hours local time starts for that one, I suspect. But J...

Well, that’s the G20 over. The circus moves on. Today is, as ever, not very different to yesterday. Will it be any different after a General...

Top Ten competitions abound. Rail enthusiasts have had another to discuss recently: most beautiful stations. Brits can feel proud: St Pancra...

Eurosceptics are an interesting bunch. They are invariably ready with the usual battery of soundbites: unelected bureaucrats, federal drift,...

An email arrives from Simon Latham, who is secretary of CREAM, set up to focus opposition to the frankly potty Network Rail (NR) plan to mov...

The eyes of the world are on the G20, which may be a relief for the Tories, particularly in London. Because, while in mid-answer before the ...

I’m not too hot on toffee pennies. And there are always more of them than the purple ones, or the green triangles. Yes, Quality Street is a ...

How does a political party rid itself of less than flattering descriptions that have inconveniently lodged in the public mind? Simple – dump...

Like poor old Dusty Bin, Stuart Wheeler has been rejected by the Tory Party. He can’t say it wasn’t coming to him, and neither can he have a...

A disturbance behind the Speaker’s chair is nothing new, as Neil Kinnock and Norman Tebbit will know. So there was a scuffle in the corridor...

The pub or bar, it is sometimes suggested, needs to continually re-invent itself to stay in business. Move with the times. Stay in the past ...

The chamber of the House of Commons is small – too small, in fact, to comfortably accommodate all 650 MPs. This intimacy gets the protagonis...

The comparison I’m about to make will not make comfortable reading for politicians and planners in the UK, mainly because the shortcomings o...

Another free paper arrives on the doormat. In Crewe you get at least two of them a week: occasionally I see the delivery bod and say hello. ...

Car production in the UK is down substantially on the same period last year. Partly we’re not surprised: temporary plant closures have been ...

One little discussed element of Crewe and Nantwich concerns the Liberal Democrats, and it needs addressing by “Shagger” Clegg and his team i...