There are some mornings when reading the newspaper is a pure delight. Today, a sunshine streams through the windows, I read with pleasure how the…
John Jessop Posts
The following is the statement that Harriet Harman, acting leader of the Labour Party, did not make. The Labour Party recognises that it suffered…
Another bloody birthday. They come round now with ever-increasing frequency these days. They do no such thing, of course, but that’s how it seems. And…
I’ve no idea why Chuka Umunna decided to pull out of the contest for the leadership of the defeated and bedraggled Labour Party days after…
Let us give thanks, yet again, albeit reluctantly, for Kevin Pietersen. Some of us are doing just that today, if only because the former England…
Back in hospital this afternoon; I seem to have become addicted to the place. It’s all M’s fault. She started the habit, with her annual…
A friend called yesterday to tell me that one of my former wives (the second) had died after a brief unspecified illness. She was seventy-six. …
In my ‘rant’ of March 26 I quote David Cameron answering ‘yes’ to a question from Ed Miliband. I quoted the answer correctly but got…
Did she or didn’t she? That is the question being asked, if not along the corridors of Westminster this gloriously sunny Easter bank holiday Monday,…
Politicians of all parties in Britain talk about ‘creating jobs’ as if doing so meant nothing more than waving a magic wand, or perhaps offering…