Following Welsh rugby captain Gareth Thomas’s courageous self-outing there is an interesting television documentary to be made about the rea...

I have a horrible feeling that the party-fanatical elements of Lib and Lab think they really can form a Losers' Coalition which, because...

Not often that someone provokes me to swear at Desert Island Discs , but Mary Beard, the Cambridge Professor of Classics, managed it today b...

Is it possible to impeach a Poet Laureate? Read Carol Ann Duffy’s 12 Days of Christmas effort and weep. This is probably the worst verse of ...

“Tonight’s Panorama,” intoned Jeremy Vine in his Most Serious Voice, “will be an eye-opener for anyone who says that Britain has become a mo...

The grey jogging bottom is amongst the leading sartorial eyesores to be found on Britain’s highways and byways. Professional tailors are won...

Last year on the Yard I wrote in praise of The X-Factor . Yeah, well I now come to bury it. On Sunday, for various inexcusable reasons, I sa...

Every quarter the Poetry Society sends me its Review magazine, showcasing the work of the nation’s top contemporary poets, and every quarter...