The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting colder, and cheap and cheerful theatres up and down the country are gearing up for the pre-Christmas pantomime season. It’s appropriate,...

Clearly, a meticulous selection process stands between you and me and a job in the newsroom of any of the main channels. Clearly, the kind of people who get to read out the headlines have a...

Maybe I’m a genius, or maybe for a while there I just had too much time on my hands – but I think I’ve worked out how our friends at the Ministry of Defence have been passing the time...

This weekend I quit my job, perhaps never to pull another pint. It was a date I’d been counting down to for some time and, when it finally came along, it was hard to shake the inane grin from...

It’s been a few weeks now, since 2 neo-Nazi BNP members were elected to the European parliament, and there’s a phrase been on the tip of my tongue virtually...

Remember the other crisis? Only a couple of years ago, before it was all bailout this and subprime that, the buzzwords of the moment were all about the climate. The broadsheets produced travel...

Tricky one to write about, the recession. Things can just change so fast. I’ll think I’ve got it down and then the day before we go to print either the Moon will go bankrupt and apply for...

Nuclear Armageddon is, at time of writing, imminent. Every front page tells me so: Russia is about to nuke Poland, having already invaded and annexed half of Georgia. And to think, all this while...