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What saucy Gethin Jones keeps in his bathroom cabinet
I read today that gorgeous Gethin Jones is being inundated with offers from admirers following his break-up with Katherine Jenkins. However, they might want to first learn what Gethin reportedly keeps in his bathroom cabinet. According to an interview with actress...
How social is London’s digital Olympics?
Cast your mind back six years ago to when Twitter and Facebook were an insignificant part of our lives and the jubilant announcement that London was to host the 2012 Olympics. How many of us used mobile apps back then? The Herculean feat achieved in delivering London...
Cambridge rowers, anarchy and elitism, the Queen and Mr Asbo the swan
As I walked along the Cambridge towpath today with my rambling club, scores of university rowers whipped past me, practising hard for one of the highlights of their year - the bumps - when more than 1500 rowers are expected to compete for glory. The bumps race...
SEN parents feel like second-class citizens
I recently described the intimidating process which families have to endure when challenging their LEA's special educational needs provision for their child. Did you realise it comes under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice, and that tribunal hearings can...
Jubilations and celebrations
It was an astonishing jubilee weekend, marred only by the unexpected poor health of Prince Philip. One wonders, with hindsight, how an elderly couple could have been expected to stand for four hours, especially during the wind and rain; us lesser mortals would...
Joining the jubilee celebrations
I was really moved last night while watching Prince Charles talk us through the royal family's private cine film of his childhood on television, which was not cold and austere as we have been led to believe, but appears to have been warm, fun and loving. Wasn't the...
Should Early Day Motions be abolished?
Brandon Lewis is the latest MP to say Early Day Motions are an expensive and ineffective lobbying tool, and that he wants nothing to do with them. So the questions are, what real value do they have, and if there isn't any, should their role be reviewed, and even...
How to Tweet your MP, by Grant Shapps
I am one of Grant Shapps' 50,000 plus followers, the youthful looking Housing and Local Government Minister, who marked his landmark figure by writing the definitive guide on to engage with an MP via Twitter. I knew Grant back in 2005 when he was a parliamentary...
Congratulations to our latest 92-year-old media star
For the second time in just over a week, a nonagenarian has beaten off stiff competition from young rivals to scoop a top media award. Congratulations to Elaine Morgan, a 92-year-old writer with the Western Mail, who won the Columnist of the Year Award 2011 in the...