How much should a political party set out who it would and wouldn’t work with after an election? And is too strict a statement ultimately disrespecting the wishes of the voters? I was prompted to wonder this following a packed public meeting in Lewes last week at...
The job of the journalist is to find a good way to sell a story, ideally with a snappy headline. We are generally observers and describers, rather than actors, but in 2017 it will be vital for those who believe in a compassionate approach to the world to take a giant...
Honours lists are a minefield. Every country has them in some shape or form, and who gets honoured is a matter of great subjectivity. But leaving aside the rights and wrongs of who gets what, the British are relatively rare in that they give certain honours that...
The name ‘Aleppo’ is in this week’s news, but I wonder how many people really get what’s going on there. They should, because – while it’s impossible to know exactly what’s happening – it looks like another round of genocide. And worse still, the events of the past...
Meet KAM, or knitted Andy Murray. Yes, this is a fully knitted model of Andy Murray – even the racket is knitted – and he formed the subject of one of the oddest assignments of my journalistic career. It adds a very different and distinctly bizarre twist to Murray’s...
