1. Who is Marjorie Longdin's nephew, and why can he expect a more expensive than usual Christmas present from her? 2. Who is the odd one out: Matthew Parris, Geoff Boycott or Lauren Booth? 3. Who left his job amid allegations of curry making and kite...

Birt simply couldn't communicate with people who appreciated the values of the BBC. After ritual huffings and puffings, the Charter would have been renewed no matter who ran the show. Now the place is a shambles, with Birt and his sidekick, Sir Chris...

According to your list of "worrying trends", young men are more likely to be the victims of violence, more likely to use drugs, more likely to abuse alcohol and less likely to get A-levels. You cite pay differentials of pounds 4.51 versus pounds 4.77...

Journalists today would not dare claim to be the modern substitute for gods, although some of their proprietors might. But they still imply that their pillorying of public figures imposes some sort of moral restraint. Their attitude to celebrity case...

The cause of this collapse was not, as has so often been claimed, the abolition of the "proscribed list". This was a list of organisations, such as the British-Soviet Friendship Society and Housewives for Peace, which were Communist fronts. Ever sinc...

America and its allies have blasted Iraq three times since 1991, and almost blasted it a fourth time last winter, when Saddam declined to allow United Nations weapons inspectors to creep and crawl wherever they liked inside his country. Whatever it i...

Now, however, it seems that teenage girls are not the all-conquering Amazons we have been led to believe, but drug-abusing, violent delinquents and inadequates in need of special help ("Teen girls urged to admire Role Model Spice", 8 November). There...

In 1914, the British government was an imperial body, not a national one, which ruled nearly a quarter of mankind but which gave no direct voice in its decisions to the majority of its subjects. One of the immediate casualties of our war policy in 19...

So I landed here, thinking I'd left sex scandals behind. But the minute I pick up a newspaper, I see the front page covered in sex stories of every kind. One politician is going into a park, another is coming out of a closet, the third is going into ...

WE WERE talking recently about famous "sayings" that were in fact never said, from "Play it again, Sam" to "You've never had it so good". So let's get this straight: Robin Cook did not say he wanted an ethical foreign policy. Who says he never said i...