As with so many decisions in a body composed of 25 member states, the choice of Herman van Rompuy as EU President and Catherine Ashton as EU foreign minister is a messy and inoffensive compromise Comments
There is urgent whispering in the aisles of Marks & Spencer: Sir Stuart Rose, the smooth, pin-up boss (for lady shoppers of a certain age) is no more Comments
As 2010 draws nearer, the literary world is starting to ask: what were the defining novels of the Noughties? Comments
A quirk of fate finds me two degrees of separation away from Simon Cowell, the Western world's most powerful man on telly Comments
Is that it? That was my reaction as I stood at the back of the House of Lords with other MPs listening to the Queen's Speech Comments
Far from the grandiose promises of ministers and the Queen's Speech, there's a more simple statement that sums up the start of the day for thousands in the nation's capital Comments
Life is just so exciting right now. Today's stunning discovery is that I am a Cyberwoman Comments
The more we hear about South West Norfolk Conservatives, the more the heart goes out to the poor candidates trying to penetrate the closed world of local Tory associations Comments
Stop! Stop what you are doing at once! A major breach in public decorum and decency has occurred and you owe it to Society In General to take a moment to be appalled Comments
For some reason, diplomats get agitated when you suggest to them that there may be something about their status and way of life that makes them prone to adultery Comments
David Cameron seems to be getting a little rattled. Following his flustered performance at PMQs last week, he seems shocked and disconcerted to be facing a political fight again Comments
Most sports stadiums are in dusty edge-of-town locations where designers don’t have to worry too much about the effects of their behemoths on their surroundings. Comments
Florence has moved on since Sarah Sands last visited - this time it was a hotel created out of two palaces that proved the highlight Comments
The 35 gang-related attacks since January have provoked a quiet rage among the Kurdish and Turkish communities of north London Comments
Earlier this year, while preparing a Radio 4 series on Britishness, I spent a day in Leicester interviewing its citizens about national identity Comments
Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle are making a stand, they say, against “an apartheid of sorts” Comments
Science and race have never been easy bedfellows. Since Victorian times, when Western scientific advancement was used as an intellectual and moral justification for European colonial expansion, science or pseudo-science has occupied an uncomfortable place in our understanding of race Comments
Today David Davies, one-time BBC presenter and former Football Association executive director, presents his proposals to ensure that much-loved events in the British sporting calendar should be on free-to-air TV Comments
Just what has happened to love's Gallic dream? Paris is traditionally associated with a view of love as deep and eternal as the Seine but this week it has been hosting France's first Divorce Fair Comments
Ted Baker today proved it is still in fashion with British shoppers despite department stores slashing their orders of the brand’s clothes Comments
Stephen Fry is just one of a number who have discovered that what you 'tweet' on Twitter is harder to get rid of than nuclear waste Comments
You are warned. Never agree to a police caution for doing something wrong unless you are guilty as sin. You will have a criminal record Comments
"Hello! How are you today ?" The smiling young woman who approaches me outside Farringdon Tube wants just a couple of minutes of my time Comments
I was walking to the local post office one morning this week when I came across a policeman looking grimly at a large pile of car tyres that had been dumped in the gutter Comments
It was a young and tragic marriage. T.S. Eliot's first wife Vivien Haigh-Wood suffered from a severe hormonal illness that required constant medical treatment, exacerbating an already hysterical nature Comments
I was sitting in the Chinese city of Xian, home of the terracotta army, trying to take a picture of its bell tower Comments
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