My exotic mother Loula is visiting me this weekend. Her motto in life is to "live and love your life away". Yet every time I speak to her on the phone, her last words are: "I must go and wash the kitchen floor". She seems obsessed with washing her kitchen floor! But...

I must confess I have never read a Mills & Boon book, yet 35 million bodice-ripping copies are sold every year - one every three second. This year marks the centenary of the publisher, and I was surprised to learn that its romance writers did not include the...

It may sound like a sexually transmitted disease, but primogeniture is in fact the common law right of the first born son to inherit the entire estate, to the exclusion of younger siblings. Note the word "son" in this sentence, in this enlightened day of sexual...

I shall be working in London today at the CHASTE conference - Churches Alert to Sex Trafficking in Europe - where many authoritive speakers will give their valuable insights into this very topical and worrying issue. I'm delighted that the Press Association is...

While I strongly believe that prison should help rehabilitate offenders, how should evil lifers like Rose West be treated when they are locked up? West was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls, including her 16-year-old daughter,...

I have two Tottenham mad fans in my house, and even my youngest son, a Man U supporter, cheered on Spurs' terrific 5-1 victory over Arsenal last night - the first time they have beaten their arch rivals in nine years. So you can imagine we had a very happy house last...

This is an appeal for any YouTube experts who can give me some technical advice. During my visit with Julian Sturdy and Yorkshire postmaster Aasif Rabbani to present their post office closure protest petition to 10 Downing Street, I made a video recording, but it...