Commentariat

Like some grand potentate of old Gordon Brown has begun a threeday ‘tour of the country’.

Stronger EU co-ordination would send a powerful signal that it means what it says when it claims to represent all its members

From the archive, 7 January 1977: The punk rock group Sex Pistols, which burst upon an astonished world just a few short weeks ago, has parted from its recording company

Long ago I was involved in a brief campaign run by The Independent to "Save Clare Short". It was one of Andrew Marr’s little amusements. It was the year before Labour was elected; she had been demoted from the transport brief to international development and Tony Blair was sufficiently irritated with her repeated crime of Being Annoying to think of ditching her altogether.

Like some grand potentate of old Gordon Brown has begun a threeday ‘tour of the country’.

It was strictly forbidden to have a notebook in Belsen, but my Aunt Ruth had
one anyway. Just a little pocket diary - an appointment book with one of
those tiny pencils. And in it, in the autumn of 1944, she noted that Anne
Frank and Anne’s sister, Ruth’s schoolfriend Margot, had arrived in the
concentration camp.

It’s a serious allegation. Liberty’s Shami Chakrabarti alleges that the government have sexed up the evidence for an extension of detention without charge to 42 days. Her claim comes because ministers have cited the example of two people alleged to…

I’m pleased to report on the latest state of affairs in English cricket.

I am reminded of a cartoon that appeared in the Newspapers at a time when Michael Heseltine was causing chaos in the Thatcher Government. The cartoon cast Hezza as Samson destroying the temple.