2007-05-29 09:21:20
Even the most compulsive side-taker should find it hard to choose between two such unattractive combatants as the Daily Mail and Channel 4. But let?s try. The Mail said yesterday that Channel 4 intended to broadcast a Diana?s death documentary...
2007-05-22 06:14:26
Consider first Margaret Hodge, the radical minister. Bravely breaking with decades of accepted practice and flaunting several taboos, Ms Hodge argued for a change to council housing rules to favour those who could be regarded as ?indigenous? over those who...
2007-05-20 15:57:01
Situated in the hills behind the ancient town of Ephesus in Turkey is the House of Mary. Near the small chapel on the site where the Virgin is supposed to have died, the olive trees are covered in strips of...
2007-05-17 06:22:28
Life is, thank God, full of incongruities. One of which is that many of those who write in to the comments part of the website complaining about too many foreigners coming to the United Kingdom then give their location as...
2007-05-08 14:12:13
I am a fan of modern British bishops, having never yet met one who I didn?t like. They tend to be good company, especially Tom Butler, the Bishop of Southwark, who has (thank the Lord) survived a controversy involving a...
2007-05-02 16:37:39
In the columnist?s world there is only one thing worse than having good people disagree with you, and that?s having dreadful people telling you how much they support your stance. True, when I wrote a disobliging piece about the Scottish...