Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet

Conservative MEPs take on Spanish fishing fleet

Conservative MEPs led by the erudite Struan Stevenson will take on the might of the Spanish fishing fleet this week to ban the cruel practice of removing fins from the Mediterranean blue shark. The World Conservation Council have announced that blue sharks are now an...
Charles Clarke and those "ill-advised" words

Charles Clarke and those "ill-advised" words

Did he mean it, or didn’t he? And did the presence of Ed Balls induce sacked Home Secretary Charles Clarke into admitting he was wrong about saying those nasty things about Gordon Brown. Clarke effectively conceded that his savage personal attack on the...
Sam Mendes film exploiting the homeless

Sam Mendes film exploiting the homeless

I’m sure award winning producer Sam Mendes has no idea that homeless people recruited as extras for his latest film are being way paid below the going rate. The film makers probably think that £50 a day is fortune for these down and outs, compared to the basic...
The best kiss of all

The best kiss of all

Well it is almost as good as the real thing, Rodin’s stunningly erotic statue of The Kiss, now on show at The Royal Academy of Arts. It seems fitting to give it a plug today, my wedding anniversary. I’m not sure whether my husband Stephen would have said...
Why Bob Russell MP threw a childish sulk

Why Bob Russell MP threw a childish sulk

You would imagine an MP would want to share a drink with his local political journalist at their annual party conference, keep him sweet, particularly one as astute and as fair as Graham Dines, from the East Anglian Daily Times. Not so Bob Russell, (pic left) the Lib...