THERE'S no way he can help it but if you asked me to draw a picture of a typical dirty old man, he would bear a disconcerting resemblance to Sir Salman Rushdie.Read
THE whole country will be united in supporting us this weekend and, no, not Blues in the Championship, I mean our competitors in the Olympic Games.Read
THE canoe couple John and Anne Darwin are well set in headlines as liars, cheats and fraudsters. But as they were swept away to a six-year jail sentence, I couldn't help but feel a tingle of amazement for their audacity.Read
IT IS one of the gross inequalities of modern life that in the western world we can munch our way to obesity while a ten-hour flight away people die of starvation.Read
THE other day I was on the end of an e-mail approving the record of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a folk hero in the view of some Americans and a barbarian in others.Read
IT HAS been the first scene in many a murder mystery: family solicitor opens father's last will and testament in front of his children and other interested parties.Read
CRITICS lined up to stuff Gordon Ramsay with his own words after the television chef had demanded laws to prevent restaurants like his own using out-of-season fruit and veg.Read