His late father Derek, who was MP for Hemsworth, used to entertain regulars in Annie’s bar with a spirited rendition of the Chinese national anthem – in Latin.Lord Brabazon of Tara doesn’t want him to go. Nor do John Biffen MP and George Walden MP (though they’re both going anyway). Creevey agrees, and signed the [...]

Unlike Mr Nicholas Soames, I have contemplated resigning my position but, like Mr Soames, have decided against, on the basis that I was at least half-right in foreseeing that the Government would lose its majority and that no one can be right about everything.At this time of the week, just after a by-election, some of [...]

Foley acknowledges the debt he owes to the Liverpool vets, but said: “It was also the horse’s own determination. As a patient in hospital, he was steady and sensible, which helped the bone to heal. But the minute he came back here and started walking out, he knew he was going back towards racing, and [...]

I thought of the women I met in Japan who shave their faces every day with tiny little pink razors, to ensure smoothness and grip for their foundation. Jennifer has shaved once or twice but she felt even more self-conscious, as if people were thinking she was trying to hide her imperfections and not really [...]

As the sun set over Silverstone, Ralf Schumacher was the only driver still on the circuit, stubbornly pursuing perfection His elder brother would have approved But he wasn’t doing it for his elder brother.. It’s a simple tradition in Formula One: tyres are “round, black and boring”, end of story. As Goodyear discovered back in [...]

Some of the most worrying cases, as most advocates know, involve minor cases which result in colossal personal consequences far beyond the monetary penalty. So-called shoplifters, even more vulnerable than the petty officer, can suffer years of misery from the public exposure. Why hamper in any way their right to trial by jury? For them [...]