Public life has become one vast poptastic interview,  read more »

Michael Gove responds to the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families statement on the appointment of the next Children's Commissioner.  read more »

Michael Gove highlights the GCSE success of schools run by ARK - Absolute Return for Kids - and by Lord Harris and asks whether the Secretary of State believes that academies should become the norm in the state sector.  read more »

Short of a grassroots campaign among the turkey community calling for all our Christmases to come early it's hard to think of a more wilfully self-destructive act than the decision by postal workers to go on strike and thus ensure that all our presents actually come sometime in February.  read more »

For Wagner it was Love and Death, for Shakespeare, Heroism and Humanity, for Tolstoy, War and Peace.  read more »

Like his colleagues, he keeps making the wrong decision under pressure  read more »

It's not reality that human kind cannot bear very much of, but niceness.  read more »

The auk was the bird evolution passed by.  read more »

In the end it turned out to be not so much a barbecue summer as a season of splints and yellow protuberances.  read more »

Happiness, the Chinese say, is watching your neighbour fall off his roof.  read more »