Does he realise what he is missing by not travelling on public transport? So many facets of human life can be found, so many sights can be seen, so many conversations overheard and wondered upon! So much more interesting than travelling in an air-con...

If he travelled regularly on inner-city buses, he would soon realise that sitting in a warm comfortable car alone or with passengers of his choice is preferable to sitting surrounded by a cross-section of the public and being exposed to screaming chi...

In the course of a reporting trip for the Daily Telegraph Magazine from the Black Sea to the Baltic, I had found that the Bulgarians talked about their country as a bridge between East and West for a thousand years, the Romanians said they were Latin...

Comparisons of size of class/number of school hours between different countries has shown that number of school hours is a better predictor of academic success than class size. For example, Japan has large class sizes but works almost twice the numbe...

The medical and nursing professions have been united in their opposition to the introduction of local pay in the health service. The British Medical Association and the Royal College of Nursing have campaigned jointly at both national and local level...

I'm not ageist. I even like some teenagers. But others are, and eyebrows are raised at my relationships with people substantially older than me. There is still a widespread presumption among the undiscerning young and middle-aged that the aged are nu...

More than vanity made him go to such lengths to project his gravitas. Only 18 months before, a colonel in the civil guard, Antonio Tejero, had marched into parliament and held nearly every politician in Spain at gunpoint for 24 hours. Veteran sociali...

I attend an evening class once a week on international law. On one of the walls, there is a reproduction of a Auguste Renoir's painting of a female nude depicted in warm French sunlight. There has never once been a complaint and probably the picture ...

Political correctness in the arts is an intriguing and disturbing phenomenon. I wondered whether Maia ni Bhrolchain's problem with objectification applied solely to women (was not Adam also objectified in Larry Wakefield's urban landscape?) or to nud...

The Bill, which has been drawn up by disability groups and others over a decade, would directly affect 6.5 million people in the UK. It enjoys support from all ten political groups in Parliament: it ought to become law. Ironically, the greatest obsta...

And in any case ( I told the hitch-hiker) what Mr Steven Norris was saying about the pleasures of going by car and avoiding all those terrible people you meet on public transport was said a long time ago and much better by Mr Willie Rushton, the arti...

To me, the issue is not the objectification of nude women in art but the appropriateness of hanging the pictures in a conference room. As a visitor to the university, I felt distinctly uncomfortable with the paintings. I would have felt the same way ...

I am a 31-year-old married man, working in the construction industry and live in North Wales - how much more of a "real man" do I have to be? This is the 1990s, and gender should not be cited to inhibit any individual's penchants. Yours faithfully, M...

Of course, the strategy of finding new uses for the elegant listed buildings of the city is welcome. In my view, however, Newcastle's attractiveness as a regional capital would be greatly enhanced by the demolition of the uglier 1960s/70s office bloc...

This was all bunkum. It was based on no conversation with any of the seven people in a position to know the truth. There was no such division. The committee was unanimous in its recommendation of Andrew Jaspan to the Trust. But your reporter's invent...

That is why the Army, and especially the Parachute Regiment, are so furious. A court martial would certainly have sentenced these four more severely. It has been suggested that the Commanding Officer should now send them to prison or kick them out of...

These images may seem extreme, but deep divisions are already unmistakeable. The report shows that the Eighties witnessed a dramatic reversal in the post-war trend towards a reduction in inequality. Britain had virtually the worst record: only in New...