Just check out that smile! That is the smile of an ultra devious modern day Machiavelli whose cunning plan has just come through in ...

I have to say that it came as something of a shock to the system when the poster at the top of this blog dropped into my inbox. After ju...

Over the last couple of days the second story on the news after the floods has been that of Abdul Waheed Majid, the first known Brit...

There was something a little surreal about our January in The First Base Agency. Ten years of experience suggested that there would be ...

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The last couple of days have seen a deal of agonising about the rights and wrongs of Channel 4’s ‘ Benefits Street ’. In case anyon...

  Yesterday an e mail dropped into my inbox with the kind of incomprehensible title that could only emerge from the bowels of the Mini...