I’m currently in Leicester, and this week caught a news story in its newsprint organ – the Leicester Mercury. I’ll come to that shortly; but first, it has put me […]

A while back I did some warbling on Early Day Motions, that parliament facility for MPs to bring all manner of matters to the attention of The House, often for […]

What to make of Channel 4’s 4thought.tv run this week: ‘Should creationism be taught in schools?’ This vignette vehicle for (presumably) anybody to get their mug on TV and grind […]

I was (for reasons I won’t go into here) stranded without a book last night, and so, while awaiting Newsnight, resorted to some aimless TV channel browsing, and happened to […]

I’ve been following with interest – and contributing to (despite one or two formatting issues that led to inadvertent re-posting of the not entirely duplicate comment) – the thread (from […]

How are we to greet last week’s news, proudly delivered by our country’s chief PR representative abroad, on his tag-along jaunt to Australia for a meeting with fifteen others pointlessly […]

I confess to degrees of terminological confusion over the news this week of the ruling by the European Court of Justice on the patentability of stem cell research. (Great, isn’t […]

Sorry to learn that things are not going too well for you at present. It must be awfully demanding to be expected to conduct all these trips abroad and not […]