The Sun ‘newspaper’ likes to say that its views chime with its readers. Sun readers, for example, love Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson and wanted him to become prime minister. Sun readers also hate foreigners and...

Goodness, is it Friday already? Then, it’s time for the much-loved (by me) weekly music shuffle. My portable mobile device also holds all my music and here I set it to play at random and I tell you what comes up. How...

An old expression that I’ve just made up is that the best ideas are those you nick from someone else. This blogpost is one of them. There is a hashtag on twitter called #FantasyCaretakerGovernment where people have been...

Just in case you were taken in by it, Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘offer’ to be a time-limited prime minister after toppling Boris Johnson in a no confidence motion in the House of Commons, may I gently point out it was...

Good luck to children everywhere who today await their A level results. It’s not an experience I ever went through on the simple grounds that my single O level did not qualify me to even study for A levels, let along take...

As someone with a history of writing spoof letters to newspapers – it all happened a very long time ago, honest, m’lud – it might reek of double-standards for me to criticise Twitter for blithely allowing...