Here we go again. The national soap opera that is football has taken another comical turn for the worse
Read full article...The public appetite for banker bashing knows no bounds. First Stephen Hester is hounded by politicians to waive his bonus
Will Britain win a gold medal for the most ethical Olympics ever? That is as likely as Boris Johnson being reincarnated as Coroebus, the naked runner and first Olympic champion in 776 BC
The moral crusade against Fred Goodwin has raised its sanctimonious head again. Why should Fred the Shred be robbed of his knighthood? He has not committed any criminal offence, as far as we know. His undoing was a hubristic business deal which went calamitously wrong. The 2007 decision to buy ABN-Amro and load RBS with debt was a case of monumental bad timing.
Blimey. They are meant to be the best days of your life. But according to a new Church- backed survey, apparently more than half a million children in the UK are unhappy
Have you done your Christmas shopping yet? Like most men, I normally leave it to the last minute, with often dire consequences
First the Tate gallery says it is considering its 20-year sponsorship deal with BP -which expires next year -because of ongoing environmental protests. Then this week two poets, John Kinsella and Alice Oswald, withdrew their names from the TS Eliot Prize awarded by the Poetry Book Society because it is sponsored by Aurum, which is - horror of horrors! - an investment firm. Can institutions and individuals afford to be so high-minded in these austere times? With the cuts in government funding to the arts, who else is going to make good the shortfall?
Never mind the economic recession. What about the sexual recession?
It's the f***ing issue du jour. Swearing, that is. No longer is the four-letter word just a cultural battleground: it has become a signifier of good health
Christmas is no longer the season to be cheerful. Tis the season to be fearful of whom to send (or not to send) Christmas cards
It is astonishing what a long shadow Margaret Thatcher continues to cast 21 years after she stood down as PM
As if we sports agnostics haven't suffered enough. Next year's Olympics are already going to cause huge traffic congestion, lights out in West End theatres, a security nightmare and an orgy of nauseating self-congratulation
Beware Greeks bearing gifts of democracy, otherwise known as referenda
Somebody has to do it. The time has come to stand up for geriatrics. If the old are not being told how lucky they are because of their final salary pensions and careers for life, they are being urged to downsize and make way for the young
How do you solve a problem like the Olympics? Lord Lloyd-Webber has served notice that he is thinking of closing his Really Useful theatres for two weeks while the Olympic Games are on next year
Why can't a man have a close friendship with another man 16 years his junior? Why should it be so "unlikely"? Why can't a married man have a male friend to stay overnight at home while his wife is stranded by a volcanic ash cloud? Stop sniggering at the back
Everybody loves a lord. Just look at all those hapless people taken in by Eddie Davenport, the playboy conman
Talk about unfortunate timing. Just seven days ago David Cameron was putting the Great back into Britain and trumpeting our country's virtues. Now we learn that the quality of life in Britain is the worst in Europe
Is Britain broken or great? Yes, I'm confused too. In a very different tone to his dire warnings about the global economy, David Cameron has found time this week to launch a new tourism drive under the brand Great Britain
We all want our politicians to have a sense of humour - especially in these dark days - but surely the least we can expect is that they err on the right side of crassness and vulgarity
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