Gordon Brown, who apparently can't be bothered to get in touch with the families of British soldiers killed in action but was able to express concern to Simon Cowell for Susan Boyle's welfare, has weighed into another crucial topic that is dominating...

This was one of the most popular stories on the BBC News website yesterday and after reading the headline I clicked on the story with a mixture of horror, disgust and morbid fascination. But then it was a slightly disingenuous headline. The story in fact...

OK, I'm going to admit to being one of the 20m-odd people who watched the final of Britian's Got Talent and I'm surprised to say that I quite enjoyed it, mostly because the Boyler didn't win and some dancing chavs did. Residents of her...

I've worked for some unutterable articles (or as the prospective Tory candidate for Gloucester might say 'councillors') in my time and I've never had any desire to work for either Simon Cowell or Sir Alan Sugar. It seems that the nation's...

One of the most moving pieces of television that I have ever seen was The South Bank Show's interview with playwright Dennis Potter who was riddled with terminal cancer and clearly in a lot of pain, filmed shortly before his death in 1994. In between...

Some readers thought that my last couple of blog posts were trite. But I'm afraid that they are completely wrong. What I was attempting to demonstrate is that the selective use of popular keywords, rather than the value of the content itself, by media...

Given that the popularity of this blog has now slumped to a level matched only by that of Jacqui Smith (and I know that neither Tony nor Oli are on holiday), I've decided to abandon my Damian McBride strategy and try a different tack to see if I can...