Last week sometime (can't be arsed checking when) a ' slightly overweight ' shadow (misnomer if ever there was one as he might...

Yesterday's post started out as this one but turned into another post instead. So here's yesterday's post today. Like many thi...

Like the proverbial pile of ironing (am not sure there is a proverb about ironing but there should be -Two piles of ironing will only gathe...

...if only I had one! So the gauntlet has been chucked on the floor , and never, no never say never, not always, rather, one to shirk from...

Apologies blogfans. Have been absent with some quite olympian domestic stuff for which there is no medal though people often tell me I de...

(*inspiration provided by Kerry McCarthy, MP for Bristol East , and her judicious use of song titles for blogpost titles; this one irresista...

Coincidentally , last night Andrew Marr, in his series Britain from Above, looked at, among other things in the programme, the development ...

Unsurprisingly, the report Cities Unlimited (available free from all good Google searches), part of a trilogy, from the 'think-tank...

I turn my back for five minutes and war breaks out. Now being more something of an amateur expert on domestic policies in my own home, ...

A Nudge as I have illustrated above and as popularised recently in a book of the same name is a way of presenting choices to people but wit...

Two feisty ladies fight back... Lady 1: "Despite working the night shift, Clara is paid £6.10 an hour. According to the payslip hande...

I mentioned in a recent post that I had noticed a tendency of bloggers to play with politicians names to create nicknames for them, one not...

The Gordon Brown Leadership Speculation stories need no further fuelling. The issue has been well and truly doused with accelerant, lit and ...

Alan Sugar has come out in defence of Gordon Brown. Read his article in The Sun Watch the BBC interview here 3 more sugar lumps too...