Plus: I'm no middle lane road hog, but do we really need all these extra driving rules?

Nick Clegg has suffered all manner of barbs about entering a coalition, but the greatest vindication of his decision to take his party into government may still be to come

The born romantics among us may tell you otherwise, but family reunion is not a minor detail of the immigration debate. Nor does it come without a price tag

The Prime Minister has barely acknowledged their existence, while Turkey’s friends abroad have said more about what the protests were not, rather than what they were

Plus: Let's have a Protest Weekend so everyone can get it over and done with

The protests in France stem in part from a blurring of church and state

The rain was scything down all day, which meant that a sensible woman in possession of a major credit card must also be in want of a decent mac (and a dress with sleeves...)

Our slowness to panic is a social virtue that can compensate for a host of deficiencies

Those who spend all their waking hours refining hi-tech gadgetry can get so far ahead of the rest of us that they end up making our lives more complicated, not less

Sir Robert Own has granted most of the foreign secretary’s request to keep whole aspects not only out of the public domain, but out of the proceedings altogether