Twenty-six years ago today, the American singer Karen Carpenter passed away after suffering heart-failure, brought on by her struggle with anorexia. She was just thirty-two years old. Much has been written about her since her untimely death and there...

I work in an office that is pretty much like any other up and down the country. We’re a pretty mixed bunch of people, from various different backgrounds, all trying to make hay while the sun shines or just trying to get from one payday to the next...

It was a case of “chat’s that” on Channel 4 this evening, as daytime TV stalwarts Richard Madeley and Judy Finnigan signed off for the last time on the programme that they have hosted on the channel for the last seven years. The husband and wife...

“Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime” was a phrase uttered by Tony Blair pretty early on in his time as Leader of the Labour Party. It was short, punchy sentences like this that symbolised the ‘sound-bite’ style of “New Labour’s...

So Madonna has turned fifty years old today and I’m sure that there will be huge numbers of journalists, all queuing up to fawn over her under the spurious guise of an interview. I’ve never quite got what it is about Madonna that everyone seems to...

I like to think that I am a pretty grounded, well balanced individual without too many hang-ups and am happy with tolerance as long as it’s a two-way street. However, what makes my hackles rise more and more these days are what seems to be the ever...

That’s pretty much as cynical a response as you’re likely to get when discussing the pros and cons of voting, but it’s a view that the older I get, the more I tend to agree with. Although I always vote and take my right to vote...