This suggests that after a good start – the Yes campaign held a 10-point lead in our poll in February – the No propaganda is turning the battle. This weekend has seen Conservative Cabinet ministers, David Cameron, Theresa May and Sayeeda Warsi, writi...

By insisting on geographical exactitude, it offered 1,500 staff the opportunity to move to Salford, a city rich in industrial heritage and the birthplace of such diverse characters as Albert Finney, Emmeline Pankhurst and John Cooper Clarke, but whic...

See? Over there, behind the tumescent crab apple trees, at the far end of the meadow. Lo and behold, through the morning mist, triangular shapes have appeared overnight. Tent poles at dawn: the campers have arrived! According to the Camping and Carav...

But I strongly endorse your plea for "better education of lorry- and bus-drivers, as well as cyclists themselves". Not least I would make helmet-wearing by cyclists compulsory. I'm astonished to repeatedly see small children wearing a helmet while cy...

And all the more so if that head is travelling on Ryanair, as David Cameron did last week, we can safely assume. It's the budget airline that makes you pay extra for breathing space, let alone a padded headrest to drift off on. In fact, the only head...

Guy Ottewell Lyme Regis, Dorset Nick Clegg's comments about "not being a punchbag" and being moved to tears by music were taken from a long interview to suggest he is too soft for politics ("Hero to zero: The dizzy rise and dramatic fall of Nick Cleg...

When, in 2007, I raised the question of how to respond to genuine frustrations felt by those working-class communities who were most affected by migration, living in areas where jobs and housing were already too scarce, I was accused by some of "usin...

This is the news from a survey by phone and internet bank first direct, whose spokesman said: "With couples needing huge deposits to get on the housing ladder... money is the most useful gift they can ask for." The theory is that they've paid for you...

Geoffrey Howe once described an economist as a man who knew 100 sexual positions but had never actually met a woman. Lansley is a man who knows 100 clinical procedures but has never carried out an operation. The fact is, a health secretary needs no s...

The website Airbnb, which is advertising the country, suggests the tiny Alpine nation could be used for "events, corporate retreats and conferences". But are they missing a trick? Rather than touting Liechtenstein to the global conference circuit, th...

So why do dog owners refuse to take responsibility for their animals? Take the case of Judge Beatrice Bolton, the circuit judge being investigated by police over claims her slavering Alsatian sank its teeth into the postman last weekend. Only last De...