I’m a keen follower of the Animal Aid website Race Horse Death Watch. It was set up in 2007 after the annual carnage at the Cheltenham Festival. Since then there have been 2026 horse deaths in 4702 days. It is a statistic...

‘Following the Labour leadership hustings held today by the party’s biggest affiliate, Unite, the union has declared that it is backing Rebecca Long-Bailey for leader. Unite is also backing Richard Burgon as deputy...

In the interests of genuine equality, Mrs Eclectic Blue, my better half, my reason for being, love you to the moon and back and all that shit has requested – no, demanded – that she be allowed a Friday shuffle. So,...

No time to lose. It’s Friday, the weather’s crap and it’s time to turn on my music centre and let it choose ten tunes at random. Then, I’ll tell you what they are. A Choir Of One by Thom Yorke. From the...

Probably, the most ill-judged decision of very many ill-judged decisions I ever made was to become self-employed, when I decided to make a real go at this writing malarkey. The best part of six years later and success continues...

Apropos of nothing, I found myself today in the same room as someone who was watching a television show called This Morning, presented by the silver-haired friend of Gordon the Gopher (one for the kids, there), Philip Schofield...