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Truly our Deputy Prime Minister is the gift that keeps on giving. Not content with ensuring she has an official photographer - on a £68k sa...

In the finest seasonal tradition of ‘no room at the inn’, some late additions to our planned family gathering presented the prospect of thre...

The increasing ubiquity of IT means that, like, I suspect, many of our generation, we spend a fair amount of time attempting to provide long...

I’m afraid I have shamelessly stolen  the title from a  comment at A K Haart’s place  in which Sobers points out that simply cutting the Win...

Much fuss has been made recently about Bovaer, the feed additive designed to reduce the methane emission of dairy cattle, and the concern ab...

In what must be one of the most inappropriate speeches ever to (dis)grace the benches of the House of Lords  (text in full here) , the Archb...

“Our department will be at the heart of the new government’s agenda […] to make Britain a clean energy superpower with zero carbon electrici...

A perceptive journalist ( Matthew Lynn, Telegraph ) compared the instigator of the current petition asking for a   general election (2,644,8...

It’s hard not to think of this Labour government as the dog that has caught the car. It’s taken them a while to work out that they are actua...

As yet another region in Spain starts the post-flood clearing up while bracing itself for another deluge, it is, perhaps, worth considering ...

There are numerous skills essential to a long and moderately successful career at today’s chalkface and not the least among these is the abi...

Just when you thought things couldn’t get any weirder or more surreal in Westminster, the Treasury has announced the appointment of a part-t...