9 February 2010 4:07PM
I was ill last week. After three days in bed I woke up and John Terry had been sacked as England captain. Cheating on his wife apparently. On Match of the Day 2 Garth Crooks said Terry must have 'balls of steel'. At the time I wasn't sure why he...
9 February 2010 12:39PM
Tim Montgomerie was quick out of the traps last night on Joanne Cash's shock resignation from as PPC for Westminster North. But judging from her Tweets today, it looks as though Ms Cash may still be up for the fight...
9 February 2010 11:42AM
Why not lie back and let your imagination go wild as you plan a day which will take you anywhere in the world at any time of the day with the love of your life. 6.00am: Woken by the sun streaming through the sliding glass of Room 312 in the...
8 February 2010 4:26PM
Yet again I forgot to lock the car on Friday night and yet again I found it ransacked on Saturday morning. Well, I say ransacked, but that is too strong a word, hinting at distressing damage and theft. Actually my...
8 February 2010 3:15PM
When Archbishop Desmond Tutu was asked to speak on the importance of inclusion in the London 2012 legacy I suspect the organisers did not expect quite so much God - and sex. But the 78-year- old veteran anti-apartheid campaigner provided...
8 February 2010 3:07PM
I've just returned from a fascinating week in India, where I accompanied a group of Givaudan flavour scientists in search of the next big thing... more to come on that later. Anyone who has been to Delhi, a teaming, dusty mass of 16 million people, will be familiar with the...
8 February 2010 11:40AM
Once again it is upon us. The romanticists' celebration that has degenerated over the years into a commercial venture that (almost) rivals Xmas and Easter. Never mind that poor old Saint Valentine was actually a priest and martyr and that history notes he was "arrested and imprisoned upon being caught...
5 February 2010 5:08PM
Here's this week's instalment of the latest entertainment news from the capital: The Little Dog Laughed is this week's Hot Ticket Find out what gigs are a must see Don't miss the best films in town Book must have theatre tickets in advance Listen to the podcast now...
5 February 2010 2:53PM
A LONDON singer has taken the internet by storm with a punk protest song about online rights. Thousands of people have viewed 'Only idiots assume', written by Londoner Liam Mullone and sung by his friend Hils Barker. It has even...
4 February 2010 3:34PM
Be warned. Coming your way shortly is a charity record acclaiming the undoubted pleasures of the Cheltenham National Hunt Festival. To the tune of Petula Clark's Downtown, assorted jockeys, trainers and turf personalities test the ear drums with lines extolling the virtues of the four days of sport, Cotswolds-way, in...
4 February 2010 3:34PM
There is only one topic being discussed by Chelsea supporters at the moment - can the Blues recover from their unconvincing form of the past two games to beat Arsenal again on Sunday and consign their already dubious title hopes to the bin van that sits outside the hotel on...
2 February 2010 12:11PM
The varnish was taken off yesterday's announcement that John Lewis was the official 2012 department store because the JL deal will not extend to the group's Waitrose supermarkets, middle England's grocery chain of choice. JL boss Andy Street joked it was a shame that Waitrose boss Mark Price - aka...
1 February 2010 1:37PM
Only last week - literally - we learned that more and more Londoners are struggling with their mortgage repayments and hanging on to their homes only thanks to the record low mortgage rate and the patience of the lenders. The former is precarious and bound to rise and the latter...
28 January 2010 3:41PM
Colin Redpath will not be at the Iraq Inquiry tomorrow to hear Tony Blair give evidence. He has better things to do - he has been invited to a military event in Wootton Bassett - and in any case wouldn't wish to give Mr Blair the honour of his presence...
21 January 2010 2:36PM
I can almost hear the collective sigh of relief from students everywhere. In Birmingham where I studied as an undergraduate, houses were broken into on a daily basis. In Lewisham where I now study at Goldsmiths, if you haven't experienced burglary, you're in the minority. That is why I can...
19 January 2010 9:40AM
When John Major, that grey man of politics, brought in the Food Labelling Regulations 1996, which compelled manufacturers to place an "appropriate durability indication" on items, he unleashed a tide of bureaucracy, for how can Deep Heat embrocation, candles and salt, that great preserver, need a use by date? Now...
17 December 2009 1:12PM
A survey on shopping habits claims that more than 40% of Britons are planning to start their January sales shopping online on Christmas Day, rather than waiting for the mad rush on the High Street on Boxing Day. It doesn't surprise me - although it's interesting that more men think...
7 December 2009 9:17AM
The show may be over but the arrest of winner Gino D'Acampo and his fellow contestant Stuart Manning over alleged animal cruelty is arguably more interesting than anything that actually went on in this year's series. The pair don't appear to have a leg to stand on, with the Italian...
4 December 2009 3:29PM
This week the final four performed at a secret gig in Soho and I was pleasantly surprised at how good the semi finalists sound live. Each performed two songs and had a great reaction from the small crowd. Here is what Stacey Solomon, Joe McElderry, Olly Murs and Danyl Johnson...
20 November 2009 8:06AM
"HOW can you walk in those?" a man asked me earlier this week as I tottered along in my four inch high studded boots. He had chased me down the road to pass on some (entirely unwanted) sartorial advice: "You'd look so much better in a pair of kitten heels...
18 November 2009 3:40PM
Interesting British Comedy Awards nominations announced today. Some are a lot easier to have predicted than others. It is no surprise that man of the moment Michael McIntyre is up for three nominations, or that the TV-friendly Alan Carr is...
16 September 2009 1:52PM
Has anybody noticed there's a major one-day international series going on? England's "Ashes Heroes" are being utterly humiliated by Ponting, Lee, and co and look set to record a staggering 7-0 whitewash defeat. It's a national sporting catastrophe but almost nobody cares. Yet any contest between the old rivals is...
28 August 2009 4:50PM
I know, I know. It says "London Life" at the top of this screen, butI feel I've barely been in London for the past month. Rather, I've been on a whistle stop tour of the British countryside, some for holiday,...
11 August 2009 2:53PM
Normally in August there is a calmness to the City. The European workers depart for their month holiday, the bosses of the big banks head of to St Kitts and St Barts. Back in the office the juniors keep the wheels going round, but without any real authority to do...
21 July 2009 12:43PM
Complaining that you haven't heard of half the acts on the Mercury shortlist doesn't just miss the point, it flies wide of the target altogether. If you have heard of all of the 12 albums, the judges have failed in...
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