Dear Sally, if only we could turn the clock back

Dear Sally, if only we could turn the clock back

A letter to Sally Clark, whose death at her home has just been announced. Dear Sally, I can’t imagine there is one mother in the country who didn’t share your sense of anguish, your feeling of abandonment and utter bewilderment, as well as the deep grief...
Do you also think this is a rubbish idea?

Do you also think this is a rubbish idea?

One subject certain to arouse anger among householders is the fortnightly rubbish collection and fears over the vermin it attracts. Local newspapers have filled their letters and news pages several times over on this topic. Yet in spite of these very...
Meet "the sexiest man in Finland"

Meet "the sexiest man in Finland"

Do you recognise this smooth haired man with a certain je ne sais quoi mousy greyness? Does he strike you as the sexiest man in Finland, which is how   Jacques Chirac once famously described him? He is Matti Vanhanen, the...

Who swindled who?

  A guest post by William Connolley.   There has been a vast amount of back and forth about the recent propaganda film “The Great Global Warming Swindle”. Two things have distressed me: that Channel 4 clearly have no interest in whether they...
Ambramovich, footloose and fancy free

Ambramovich, footloose and fancy free

So billionaire Roman Abramovich is now footloose and fancy free following his costly divorce, which we could be hearing much more about from his ex-wife. I wonder which country they divorced in, how many zeros are on the end of the cheque. I also wonder if he is...
Nuclear power stations risk being flooded

Nuclear power stations risk being flooded

Greenpeace could have something here, nuclear power stations built along the coast in East Anglia are at risk of being flooded if sea levels rise as predicted. These are the findings of a study by the Flood Hazard Research Centre at Middlesex University...