General Election 2017 – Peace Policies and Foreign Follies

Steve Beauchampé on the need for strong and stable government.

A trillion reasons to query your candidate

There’s a politician at the door. Here’s what to do next, advises Will Mapplebeck

Drop dead letter to Sir Howard Elston

A warning from our social care correspondent.

General Election 2017 – Corbyn goes on the attack

Labour leader says he’s not a pacifist and runs down cameraman to prove it. Steve Beauchampé reports.

Skin deep and forever young (ish)

Cosmetics, creams and powders. Sheilagh Matheson experiments to discover what works and what doesn’t.

Fightin’ words

Will Mapplebeck is on the election trail to boredom.

The past is another country but some things never change

Richard Lutz wanders through lost school hallways at his fiftieth class reunion

General Election 2017 – The no policies policy

Aside from a couple taken from other parties, do the Conservatives have any policies asks Steve Beauchampé?

Letting Jeremy be Jeremy might be a bad idea

Will Mapplebeck wonders aloud about Jezza and his inability to find the killer comment.

General Election Week One: Where are the Tories?

Steve Beauchampé reviews the campaign’s opening week.

The queen is not dead

Steve Beauchampé woke up on Tuesday morning and thought the Queen had died. But it was worse than that.

Eternal happiness, Dear Leader

As tensions rise over North Korea, Steve Beauchampé reports from inside a state seemingly on a perpetual war footing.

Gini out of the bottle

Will Mapplebeck reports on why inequality has levelled out – despite what the Left says.

Root problems and other tales

Richard Lutz painstakingly looks back in anguish at the week that was and a spring that will be.

Chocolate, weapons and war

Easter, you can’t say it often enough for some people says Steve Beauchampé.

EU leaves Britain

Sir Howard Elston, this website’s diplomatic editor, with the inside story of the Big Break Up.

Now, let’s hold on for a minute

Richard Lutz warns that the Westminster attack should not start a rush to judgement.

The strange state of a post-Scotland UK

Will Mapplebeck looks at a disunited Kingdom.

False truth crossing and other tales

Richard Lutz meanders through another miasmic week

Notes from a small planet

Bob Densmore ponders the universe and words without meaning.

Last train out, maps and other tales

Richard Lutz looks back in angst at the past week.

The Oscars: Moonlight best but will it win?

Richard Lutz explains why this movie about love and generosity is the natural choice for the best film award this Sunday.

That was the Wyre that was and other tales

Richard Lutz reviews the charred wreckage of another week.

Crimestoppers launches campaign against Female Genital Mutilation

People urged to contact charity if they have information.

Fools Rushed In

The UK’s indecent haste in befriending toxic Trump will likely end badly suggests Steve Beauchampé.

That was the wall and the walk that was and other tales

Richard Lutz leafs through the wreckage of his past week.

Great British Spring Clean: How to play your part

City council backs green-up campaign.

Street legal on High Street

Richard Lutz contemplates what’s on offer inside a US marijuana shop.

You need a number

Martin Samuel provides a true tale of Birmingham, 16th January 2017.

In the bleakest of mid-winters

Try and stay positive… because things are set to get a lot worse in 2017 suggests Steve Beauchampé.