Last Monday on You and Yours (at 43:42), the BBC’s consumer affairs programme broadcast at noon Monday to Wednesday (it used to be every weekday, but other programmes are now broadcast at noon on...

Rod Liddle, former editor of the BBC’s Today programme and then columnist first for the Guardian, then the Spectator, the Sunday Times and men’s magazines GQ and Arena, died last Sunday aged 66. Rod...

Here in Europe we’re in the middle of a disastrous hot summer. In the UK it has not been as severe as in France, where temperatures around 45ºC have been recorded and there are...

Last week, following the murder or assassination of the former Tory, later Reform UK, politician Ann Widdecombe (right) the week before, the Reform party started making demands that the public purse should pay for...

Citizen Vigilante is not only a vicious film, it is an extraordinarily stupid film. Directed by Uwe Boll, the German director behind the films Rampage and Darfur (previously best known for making video games...

A week ago, a report on a maternity care scandal in the Nottingham area was published. The Ockenden Maternity Review had been set up in May 2022 “following significant concerns raised regarding the quality...