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I really wanted to write you a quirkily funny, fluffy-centred, cuddly little John Lewis blog for New Year, really I did. But. Faster than the arrival of the Easter eggs on the supermarket shelves, New Year’s Eve brings with it that merry herald of a brave new hope for a fresh start, that beacon of […]

I am afraid I have not been a very good boy this year, but on the other hand, for a variety of reasons – ragged morality, shortage of cash, shortage of time, those funny law-type things – I have been nowhere near as bad as I would like to have been. I am not going […]

We are correct, of course, as a nation, to dismiss with the utmost contempt every utterance offered to us by ‘Sir’ Michael Wilshaw, the leader of the education-wrecking school-closing Gove-grovelling career-ending disgrace to what used to be the national education system that is Ofsted. That contempt stems from the knowledge that ‘Sir’ Michael’s tight-lipped finger-wagging […]

I don’t want anybody else to mention Nelson Mandela to me. Specifically, I don’t want any more live ‘news’ reports asking people what they thought of him, nor do I want any more comment from opportunistic cowards like David Cameron, whose only difficult decision about race issues was to decide what cocktail to order a […]