For the avoidance of doubt - this contains mega spoilers, so go no further if you don't want to know....."Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"A simple saying, a ...

I am well aware of the fact that I have already taken up too much space on this blog venting my spleen on the subject of the shambolic England 'football' ...

A man who killed a taxi driver while trying to commit the ‘perfect murder’ has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Colin Cheetham (right) was sentenced yesterday at Nottingham Crown ...

This has been a while coming, as the blog has subsided just because of my chaotic schedule, but also because I am losing track of what is important. I ...

“Rape seems to be the only crime where it's seen as ok to put the victim on trial.”That quote is from Natasha on the front page of the Not Ever ...

"Ooh, make the most of this time;" "It'll all change once the rugrats come along;" "Go to bed now and sleep" - all words of supposed wisdom that have come ...

Among Nemo's many talents and endearing idiosyncrasies (the talent of submerging and resurfacing with gracious misanthropy; the penchant for ink and fine writing instruments and for distinctive implements of personal ...

The Ministry of Defence has announced the name of the British bomb disposal expert killed in Afghanistan at the weekend.Corporal Jamie Kirkpatrick was fatally wounded in a small gun battle ...

I don't want you to think that I've spent the last week glued to the Budget debate in the House of Commons, but I thought I'd share with you another ...

I swear this has nothing to do with Sunday’s sorrowful event (an apt description coined by a non-footballing friend) but part of me really wishes this World Cup was over.It’s ...

The man who brought glam rockers Kiss to the world has died.Bill Aucoin, who was 66, spotted the make-up and leather-clad group’s musical and marketing potential at an early show ...

Waiting for England to prove me wrong, I held back on writing anything that might look foolish within days of posting. But it's clear from their inept performance at the ...

As I've written before,I can see the fairness the Liberal Democrats have added to the Budget - a rise in the personal tax allowance and Capital Gains Tax, the restoration ...

The BBC reports that 82-year-old teacher Myrrha Stanford-Smith has landed a three-book deal after writing her first novel. The trilogy is a fictional account of William Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe's ...

There's a new interview with me up at Dr. Doug Lyle's Writer's Forensics Blog. But I should disclose that it's a biased interview...he's an old friend, he's given me medical ...

The Deputy Editor of Mother & Baby magazine has found herself under fire from all angles today for saying that breastfeeding is "creepy," a staggeringly ill-judged statement that would be ...

Today is my lovely, longsuffering husband's birthday. It's also now exactly (at around 5 ish tonight) 23 years since we met. I think the best present he could get today ...

Tributes have been flooding in to award-winning and prolific playwright and screenwriter Alan Plater who died from cancer on Friday.He had moved to the city of Hull as a youngster ...