Britain was technically supposed to have left the EU by now. As it is, due to a series of messy negotiations and failed votes, we’re still very much European (thank the Lord) and, as a result, we...
Throughout history, the people of all governments, whether it be monarchist or democracy, left or right, authoritarian or libertarian, have been subject to a certain degree of scrutiny by the powers...
At 9.25am every weekday for the last 14 years, an obnoxious and angry man has dominated the morning TV airwaves. The Jeremy Kyle show blasted through more than a million people’s TVs every day,...
Yesterday, voters in England and Northern Ireland voted in local council elections. The results of local elections are always interesting because people vote differently locally compared to...
A woman in Scotland was in an abusive relationship. She had been battered and beaten by her partner but, until one particular night, he had never sexually abused her. But he came home drunk in the...
Theresa May has made a big balls-up of Brexit again. Actually, I don’t know if it’s ‘again’ so much as a continuous state of being. Desperate to get fellow Conservatives to vote for her...
When there’s something that children find confusing, the role of a teacher is to explain it in a way that they can comprehend. Maths, for instance, is ever-so confusing and every teacher from when...
It’s a funny thing, writing a story about Brexit this week. There has been a lot of news. A lot. I’ve had the BBC News channel on almost constantly and I still only have a passing familiarity...
I’m disabled but I don’t have a disability. For a long while, I was both disabled and able-bodied at the same time. Does that sound like it doesn’t make any sense? Let me explain. I know that...
In 2010, Sally Challen, after suffering decades of emotional abuse at the hands of her husband, killed him (with a hammer, the tabloids love to describe). She was convicted of murder and many...
