04Sep

In the future she said women will be bossing men around more and more

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“In the future,” she said, “women will be bossing men around more and more. This will be a nuisance for the men, but there you are.”Perhaps she was thinking about the relationship between one particular man and woman when her husband retires (probably) next year.* Talking of women in politics… Word has reached Paris that [...]

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04Sep

Great names are associated with that growth – Sefton Brancker Sholto Douglas

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Great names are associated with that growth – Sefton Brancker, Sholto Douglas, George Cribbett, George Edwards And to these must be added Peter Masefield. The 20th century saw the birth, and amazing growth, of civil aviation. Peter Gordon Masefield, civil servant, administrator and aviation historian: born Trentham, Staffordshire 19 March 1914; design staff, Fairey Aviation [...]

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04Sep

His parents are politically apathetic his mum will vote Conservative at a push but he remembers

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His parents are politically apathetic (his mum will vote Conservative “at a push”), but he remembers watching the 1997 election-night coverage at home in Herefordshire as a precocious 12-year old, “seeing Tony Blair get in, and feeling absolute horror,” he says. But it was in 1997 that, after enjoying the lion’s share of the youth [...]

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01Sep

In Britain the Processed Vegetable Growers’ Association PVGA says pea growers are worst-hit and some could

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In Britain, the Processed Vegetable Growers’ Association (PVGA) says pea growers are worst-hit, and some could go out of business.”The harvesting teams and factories are both struggling to cope,” said a spokesman. The PVGA is already in talks with buyers to increase the price of vegetables, a necessary strategy to prevent ruin for some of [...]

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01Sep

Restrictions on the sale of the painkiller paracetamol to prevent suicides is being

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Restrictions on the sale of the painkiller paracetamol to prevent suicides is being routinely flouted by chemists and supermarkets. A study of more than 100 patients treated at the accident and emergency department of Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in south London for paracetamol overdoses found a third had deliberately set out to buy the [...]

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01Sep

It’s no exaggeration to say that Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns have been surprised by their success

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It’s no exaggeration to say that Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns have been surprised by their success. A lucky break (down to dogged hassling) remixing Radiohead’s “Climbing Up the Walls” led to the release of their 2001 debut album, Simple Things – and then all hell broke loose. Everyone wanted a piece of their melodic [...]

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29Aug

Not in weeks or months but now &ndash while they are digging out the dead at Ground

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Not in weeks or months but now – while they are digging out the dead at Ground Zero.And there is general acceptance in America that we do have a moral obligation at some stage, to demonstrate that we have identified the right targets, both in Afghanistan and in other rogue states. Of course, a very [...]

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29Aug

This would show the desire to return good for evil Maj-Gen David Egerton wrote yesterday

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“This would show the desire to return good for evil,” Maj-Gen David Egerton wrote yesterday. “It would be far easier to launch and sustain than a shooting war, and would not need precise information.”
It comes to something when a Major General writes to The Daily Telegraph agreeing with the proposal that it is [...]

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29Aug

But what is so wrong or anti-American about calling for a measured response?Imagine that a neighbour arrives

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But what is so wrong or anti-American about calling for a measured response?Imagine that a neighbour arrives on your doorstep in a distressed state, announcing that his wife and children have been murdered. He thinks he may know the identity of the culprit, although he isn’t absolutely sure, and roughly where the perpetrator lives. He [...]

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28Aug

He trails Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher by 24 points and the German was down in seventh place yesterday

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He trails Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher by 24 points and the German was down in seventh place yesterday.Drawing conclusions from Friday’s times is, of course, a hazardous task, and Eddie Irvine’s second place for Jaguar is unlikely to repeated in this afternoon’s qualifying session or tomorrow’s main event.However, Jenson Button, back among the stragglers in his [...]

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In the future she said women will be bossing men around more and more

Great names are associated with that growth – Sefton Brancker Sholto Douglas

His parents are politically apathetic his mum will vote Conservative at a push but he remembers

In Britain the Processed Vegetable Growers’ Association PVGA says pea growers are worst-hit and some could

Restrictions on the sale of the painkiller paracetamol to prevent suicides is being

It’s no exaggeration to say that Sam Hardaker and Henry Binns have been surprised by their success

Not in weeks or months but now &ndash while they are digging out the dead at Ground

This would show the desire to return good for evil Maj-Gen David Egerton wrote yesterday

But what is so wrong or anti-American about calling for a measured response?Imagine that a neighbour arrives

He trails Ferrari’s Michael Schumacher by 24 points and the German was down in seventh place yesterday

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