The Brown’s body language

The Brown’s body language

What does this picture tell you about the Brown’s body language? Gordon Brown is deliberately posing for the camera with a very fixed smile, while Sarah appears to be floating by his side as an uncomfortable appendage. We were used to seeing the Blairs holding...
How many women could handle 200 lovers?

How many women could handle 200 lovers?

I received an invitation today with my latest edition of The Spectator, to celebrate the launch of a new biography, “Jennie Churchill, Winston’s American Mother”, by Anne Sebba. It boasts that she was “outspoken, dazzlingly beautiful and had...
Outrageous shutting down of British blogs

Outrageous shutting down of British blogs

It’s extraordinary, but true, and even though we live in a democracy where freedom of speech is a right we can enjoy, that freedom does not extend to your blog if you upset a rich and powerful person. That is the gist of Iain Dale’s unbelievable post...
Your question for Question Time

Your question for Question Time

Apparently Question Time has a new look when it returns this evening, and we can email questions in advance to quiz the panelists. Tonight they include Chief Whip Geoff Hoon; Conservative MP John Redwood; Lord Ashdown, former leader of the Liberal Democrats; editor...