It now appears that, while plans for this particular centralised database may have bitten the dust, the Government has not given up its intention to find out more about us. This time, though, ministers are taking care to present the project as being ...

For a start, nuclear power also requires a finite fuel (uranium) whose long-term supply is by no means guaranteed and which has to be imported. If the industrialised world switches to nuclear power to replace oil, we should expect to see the same ene...

When the private and family matters of Cabinet ministers are up for grabs, particularly by the grabbing hand of the tabloid press, Government is quick and right to protest. However, the same rules don't seem to apply to the rest of us. My problem as ...

Brought to thick-headed consciousness by the alarm the next morning, we had barely thirty minutes to get ready for our next outing, a celebration that was to be a first-time experience for both of us. Leaping dishevelled into a cab on Third Avenue we...

I'm a bitch. Most of my friends are bitches. And now, praise the devil, bitching is good for us. Women in particular excel at the sport. Kate Figes, a highly intelligent, dues-paid feminist, says so, and if a cultural commentator I respect rather tha...

The Gambling Act, which comes into effect this year, is already out of date. Since the Bill was passed, the Government has come unstuck, particularly over casinos. Ministers were guilty, at best, of a lack of attention to detail. Allowing casinos to ...

That's right. Normally, I would break it more gently, but believing it to be apt to follow the profession's own custom and practice, I'm going to give it to you straight: docs, people are saying you are arrogant and greedy bastards. There's Gerry Rob...

First Donny, who thought he was Johnny Rotten and may or may not have wet the bed, scaled the perimeter wall. "I'm not fucking waiting on some moron and her family," he pouted, announcing that Donny Tourette (who?) was far too famous to make tea for ...