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Yesterday it was reported that Peter Mandelson is demanding the Prime Minister call a Cabinet reshuffle in order to make him Foreign Secretary
Read full article...Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle are making a stand, they say, against “an apartheid of sorts”
Do they take us for complete idiots in Norfolk?” ask South West Norfolk’s Tory activists, as they limber up to deselect their candidate over revelations of her 18-month affair with a married Tory MP
I see it as a film trailer. A blighted desert landscape. Blowing dust. A lone figure in a crumpled suit. "It was a time of conflict," a voice-over growls
Comes another day, comes another radical initiative to raise aspirations and break down barriers to social mobility
Lord Mandelson has let it be known he is "beyond anger" (one imagines his condition with a thrill) about the striking postal workers. Royal Mail's managing director says their attitude "beggars belief". The chief executive, Adam Crozier, says industrial action is an "appalling and unjustified attack on customers". Huff, puff.
What's in a handshake? If you're a politician, everything: four squeezy fingers and a thumb can spell the difference between triumph and disaster
Tracey Emin, faced with the prospect of a 50 per cent tax rate, has announced that she is "very seriously considering leaving Britain" for France, where they "have lower tax rates and they appreciate arts and culture"
Up to 70 lives will be saved in the first year, according to a study by Sheffield University, if the Scottish government pushes through plans to introduce a compulsory minimum cost per unit of alcohol
The countryside, rather than the city, has now become the locus of our collective anxieties and fears
When, as a go-ahead government minister, do you get the first inkling that your whiz-bang new scheme to protect children from the number one menace of our time might have gone a bit too far?
Watching the Prime Minister's handling of the al-Megrahi fiasco (I don't think it's too soon to call it a fiasco - it's already well on its way to becoming a "-gate") has reminded me of nothing so much as a Road Runner cartoon
There are times when one has no choice but to stand back and admire
A literary biography without a sex-Nazi, child-slavery, and/or hamster-rape angle is now dead in the water
The chief advantage of meritocracy is that people selected that way are normally better at their jobs
Should Gary McKinnon be extradited?” is the question we are all invited to consider. The only conclusion to be reached is: “no”. But what we think doesn’t have much bearing on the matter, does it?
We live, friends, in strange times. They may be getting to me
It is a disgrace, no question, that the Government proposes to chisel a few bawbees off the bottom line by reducing the compensation payment to any victim of crime found to have convictions for motoring offences
Two weeks ago my fiancée was giving birth to our daughter, and we went through an experience common to many first-time parents: we showed up too early at the hospital and were sent packing
Our writer joins the billion television watchers across the world saying farewell to the king of pop music
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