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Peter Jay, the former diplomat, journalist and factotum to Robert Maxwell, was once supposed to have told a sub-editor at The Times,...

The people who run my gym clearly think we’re a bunch of southern softies. Despite it being located in Islington, the BBC TV news on the...

It is more than five years since the then chief executive of Lloyds Banking Group, Antonio Horta-Osório, promised swift recompense to...

South-African born son of the co-owner of an emerald mine, Elon Musk, has long been a campaigner against “woke-ism”, which is what those...

The similarities between Orville Richard Burrell and Boris Johnson are few and far between – apart from the reggae musician’s stage name...

You can’t get your hopes up too early, but if the reports are to be believed there seems to be some movement towards a peace deal to end...

Last Sunday more than 100 million people watched the Superbowl, the climax of the American football season. Though that seems astounding,...

The annual Edelman trust barometer is always an eye opening study. The geographical breadth of the 28 country study, with over 32,000...

The old joke about the 1960s was that if you remember them you weren’t really there. Maybe that’s the same about the party at 10 Downing...

Who’d be a press officer. Not Allegra Stratton any more, after she following the leaking of a video showing her joking about the...

Tuesday 5th May 2015 will always be etched on the memory of Ed Miliband. That’s the day he was photographed uncomfortably eating a bacon...

Be honest. Was anyone surprised that Boris Johnson had to admit to the BBC that the attempts to recruit foreign HGV drivers with...

There has been a mild panic in the Nisse household after the energy company we had just agreed to switch to had the bad manners to go...

It’s a 40 yard walk from the centre of the pitch, where the team lines up, to the penalty spot. The goal is 12 yards away and seems to...

Sir Keir Starmer always strikes me as a sensible chap. Rather too sensible and safe, many would say. As someone who re-joined the Labour...

Sir Elton John, once of course the owner of Watford Football Club, famously sang: “Sorry seems to be the hardest word.” As the “big six”...

One of my most disappointing moments as an Arsenal fan was the Champions League final in 2006. One nil up with just 10 men, our...

Crossing the road the other day I was stopped by the mother of one of my son’s schoolfriends. Our socially distanced chat soon turned to...

Thank you to everyone for the good wishes on the third anniversary of me setting up on my own. I actually missed the date because I was...

Anyone who follows me on LinkedIn will have noticed I’ve been involved in a spat with two economists over an article one of them wrote in...