GENERAL RICHARDS & THE INKSPOTS

It was reported at the weekend that General Sir David Richards will be stepping down as Chief of Defence Staff in July, despite the fact that the Prime Minister wanted him to stay on as head of the armed forces and his principal military adviser. But apparently...

CLOWNS & RACISTS

That Lib-Dem grandee and Europhile Ken Clarke, who accidentally wandered into the Tory party, has been bad mouthing those of the free electorate who might be considering voting UKIP in the upcoming elections on Thursday. This despite the fact, that these are the very...

GIRLS DRIVING THE TV DRAMA BUSES

Waiting for decent TV drama is like waiting for a bus nowadays. Yet it’s rare for one, let alone two, to come along at once. But it’s happened this week, and it’s the girls who are driving and conducting both. Always slick, lifting itself out of the slightly soapy...

GETTING NEEDLED BY THE MMR SCARE

In the late 1990s Dr Andrew Wakefield suggested he’d discovered through research that there could be a link between the combined MMR jab for mumps, measles and rubella with autism. . He was subsequently vilified by the medical authorities and his research...

SO THERE’S A JOHNSON AT No 10.

It’s interesting to see a slim-line Boris Johnson – his youngest brother Jo – in the Prime Minister’s office as new head of policy to the Conservatives. Will this affect the London mayor’s future in any way?