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The Evening Standard’s campaign for tap water in restaurants is being given good coverage – at least in their own newspaper. It’s a good ca...

Why is it that politicians don’t make basic connections that make themselves easier to understand and help people remember what they’re sayi...

Yesterday’s Sunday Telegraph had a story about how ‘doctors’ believed old people shouldn’t necessarily be treated on the NHS. On closer ex...

I’ve just been to the newly refurbished London Transport Museum in Covent Garden, with the family in tow. The elderly buses and trains were ...

I arrived late at the one-day conference and missed the big speech (and the drinkable tea). Having heard what Nick Clegg said about public ...

Say what you like about New Labour, under either Blair or Brown, and you come back to two extreme truths about them: they are extreme modern...

I went to see The Golden Compass last night. Perhaps I had low expectations, since I kindof think Northern Lights is a work of genius, bu...