Apparently, it's shocking news (or "Dramatic New Evidence" as the Evening Standard had it last night) that a man, whose job is to take photographs of famous people in newsworthy situations and then to sell them on for large amounts of money, took some photographs of a famous person in a newsworthy situation and then tried to sell them on for a ( Read more... )

Alas, the first sentence of this story on the "chaos" of a bit of snow kindof undercuts itself:

The heaviest snowfall in 11 years closed airports and schools yesterday and caused travel chaos on roads and railways, proving once again that Britain just cannot cope with seasonal snow.If it's exceptional (heaviest in 11 years!) then it can't really ( Read more... )

The papers are currently full of "How To Survive Your Work's Christmas Do" boilerplate features. Seriously, do they actually write these from scratch each year, or is it just a case of editing the previous year's to include the latest in dire legal consequences (for 2006, it's the Employment Equality (Age) Regulations that you need to be wary of ( Read more... )

Why is the sport section of newspapers one of the biggest? Well, aside from the usual response of "it's what the punters want", I reckon it's because it's easy to cover. It's predictable (there's a fixtures list telling you when and where the events are taking place), it's easily delineated (a match report, going to press conferences and ( Read more... )

1. The real reason Charles Clarke "resigned" from the cabinet: to spend more time with his family2. One yardstick when thinking about your age is comparing it to professional sports careers. Thus, my current age, 34, is well past the point when footballers get referred to as "entering the twilight of their career". I'm dead in the world of ( Read more... )