At a scrubbed wooden table, a dapper, Rumpole-ish gentleman is taking lunch, in immaculate suit and wide red braces. Behind him, also eating alone, is a troll in human form – a small, wild-haired oldster wearing a plunging singlet and very short shorts, his abundantly furry chest and shoulders on proud display. Both of these unlikely fellow diners look perfectly at home.

Report condemns a charity running 35 schools for ‘procedural irregularities’ and ‘weak’ controls

Huhne is said to be looking for a ‘fourth career’, while Pryce is writing a book about the economics of prison

Even if they succeed in beating down the level of costs demanded by the prosecution, Chris Huhne and Vicky Pryce will emerge from prison many thousands of pounds worse off than they were when they went in, and will need to earn money.

There is no evidence to support the claim that the Coalition has created more jobs in three years than Labour managed in ten. Quite the reverse, in fact

A senior BBC executive tonight claimed the corporation was justified in putting the lives of students at risk by sending an undercover reporting team with them on a trip to North Korea.

With over 500 million YouTube views, TED Talks have attracted guest speakers such as Bill Gates, Richard Dawkins and Julian Assange and in the process, made conferences cool again.

The first steps towards industrial action at the University of Sussex are being discussed by the branches of three unions represented at the south coast campus.

Life on Marsden

One delegate calls Sir Michael Wilshaw 'Big Brother'

Stephen Twigg: 'The word crisis is sometimes overused but I think in this context it is the right word'

Michael Gove will be accused today of causing irreparable damage to children's education in a devastating personal attack by the leader of Britain's most moderate teachers' union.

The exam beard oozes intellectual machismo and is a great soother in times of stress

The law was written to deal with publishers and journalists, not private individuals, but with the advent of social media, everyone is a publisher