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Ever since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has been helping us to live longer. Unfortunately, no-one has answered this question: when the...
Ever since its foundation in 1948, the NHS has been helping us to live longer. Unfortunately, no-one has answered this question: when the...
After a £10 million jewel theft at a £40 million house in London, a witness who examined CCTV footage of the burglar declared: “He was a lone wolf...
After a £10 million jewel theft at a £40 million house in London, a witness who examined CCTV footage of the burglar declared: “He was a lone wolf...
In an impassioned plea for “quality” TV for children, Baroness Floella Benjamin laments: “Where now is Grange Hill? Where now is Byker Grove? Where...
I sympathise with the harassed TV newsreader who followed her colleague's summary on the death of President Jimmy Carter with the question: “So that...
What do you call a fortune teller who predicts your future and then says, oh, by the way, these predictions may take 500 years to come true? How...
'Tis the season to be guilty. A new year beckons and we promise to give up booze, throw away the fags, eat our greens and, according to one curious...
'Tis the season to be guilty. A new year beckons and we promise to give up booze, throw away the fags, eat our greens and, according to one curious...
Back in October 2022 I wondered in this column: “How many viewers of All Creatures Great and Small (C5) grasped the significance of the hat band...
Back in October 2022 I wondered in this column: “How many viewers of All Creatures Great and Small (C5) grasped the significance of the hat band...
I'm still waiting to see the dentist concerning my pre-Xmas broken filling. It is a strange thing but while the chunk of metal that fell out of my...
I'm still waiting to see the dentist concerning my pre-Xmas broken filling. It is a strange thing but while the chunk of metal that fell out of my...
You may recall that a few days before Christmas, having lost a tooth filling, I wrote: “I'm waiting to see if my dentist can fit me in before...
You may recall that a few days before Christmas, having lost a tooth filling, I wrote: “I'm waiting to see if my dentist can fit me in before...
The first Christmas I remember was in 1955, in the days when everything happened in black-and-white and the world was so strange and new and deeply...
The first Christmas I remember was in 1955, in the days when everything happened in black-and-white and the world was so strange and new and deeply...
I suggested a fine old English verb really ought to be used more. The word is “eschew” and a reader writes: “Bless you.” Energy secretary Ed...
I suggested a fine old English verb really ought to be used more. The word is “eschew” and a reader writes: “Bless you.” Energy secretary Ed...
So which process is the more brutal? Is it the denunciation of Thomas Cromwell, as seen in Wolf Hall (BBC1) or the denunciation of our own...
So which process is the more brutal? Is it the denunciation of Thomas Cromwell, as seen in Wolf Hall (BBC1) or the denunciation of our own...
If the Government is serious about increasing our military reserves, let us hope they have the money to do it properly. Watch more of our videos on...
If the Government is serious about increasing our military reserves, let us hope they have the money to do it properly. Watch more of our videos on...
These days, the thing you really don't want to see after a storm is not a felled tree or a flattened fence. It is the little red light glowing on...
These days, the thing you really don't want to see after a storm is not a felled tree or a flattened fence. It is the little red light glowing on...
Bashar al-Assad was not always a dictator. In the 1990s he was a student in London, specialising in ophthalmology. Who knows, if his murderous...
Bashar al-Assad was not always a dictator. In the 1990s he was a student in London, specialising in ophthalmology. Who knows, if his murderous...
The smart, oh-so-chic Londoners who produce the Daily Mail have had a grand old time slagging off a big, three-bedroom 1970s house for sale in...
The smart, oh-so-chic Londoners who produce the Daily Mail have had a grand old time slagging off a big, three-bedroom 1970s house for sale in...
The veterans' minister Al Carns claims that, in a major war, the 70,000-strong British Army might be wiped out within six months. Some would call...
The veterans' minister Al Carns claims that, in a major war, the 70,000-strong British Army might be wiped out within six months. Some would call...
Cast your mind back. Remember when the phrase “politicians with convictions” meant a good thing? Pity those poor souls who were flooded out by...
Cast your mind back. Remember when the phrase “politicians with convictions” meant a good thing? Pity those poor souls who were flooded out by...
Winter draws on, as the old saying goes. Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.comand on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 My recent item on the noise...