HEAR HEAR As happens from time to time, I’m even more deaf than usual at the moment. A combination of a build up of ear wax and my entirely unscientific efforts to remove it seem to have made matters even worse. Even...

Petty, small-minded, always one to bear a grudge. Yes, that’s me. Not on everything, but certainly when it comes to politics. A slightly reconstructed Blairite, although I still believe that Tony Blair and new Labour did...

I was interested to read the comments of Howard Beckett, Len McCluskey’s preferred hard left successor as Unite general secretary, when the entire population of Glasgow* turned up at an address in Pollokshields where...

This being ‘Mental Health Awareness Week’ (MHAW), I suppose I should be asking, ‘how are you’?  After all, we’re supposed to be encouraging everyone to open up about their mental health,...

A taxi driver writes (with apologies to Private Eye): ‘Anyway, did you see those Brit awards last night? Fackin’ ‘ell: call that music? None of these modern acts can sing, it’s all autotune, rap crap...