If Muslim pupils at British schools are doing badly in their exams because they are starving hungry all day during Ramadan, should we: a) Move the exams for hundreds of thousands of other pupils earlier in the year before Ramadan
“Where are the policies for young people? Why don’t politicians care about us?” Those questions are asked almost daily by intelligent, engaged and knowledgeable young people who want their voices to be heard by the political powerbrokers. Yet their demands
Katie Hopkins has been widely castigated for penning a column declaring that she does not care about hundreds of north African migrants drowning in the Mediterranean, calling them “cockroaches” and calling for “gunships” to be sent in to deal with
It’s only Day Two but the election campaign has already sunk to new depths of desperation and derision. After the Prime Minister David Cameron and Labour leader Ed Miliband braved a grilling from Jeremy Paxman last week, today it was the Liberal
When was the last time you wrote a letter to a Government minister? And when was the last time you wrote a letter to a Government minister and received anything close to a substantive response suggesting that your missive had
Children and parents alike will be going to their beds tonight in fear of the bogeyman whose dark shadow now looms large over the United Kingdom. That evil bogeyman is of course none other than the former First Minister of
Here’s a question: do you fancy some free money? If your answer was “Yes, please”, then congratulations, you’re a typical British voter. Ask voters if they would prefer a tax rise or a tax cut, and you don’t have to
In today’s Fat News, we learned that obese women have a far higher chance of getting seven different cancers than women who are a healthy weight. Yes, another day, another revelation about how obesity is blighting our nation’s health –
Apologies but I don’t have much time to write this article as I’ve got rather a lot to do, going back through a list of all my past boyfriends to see if I can find one who has managed to
It’s an exciting day for motorists. Today we found out that we will get an extra 10 minutes’ grace period on our stay at a parking meter before we can be issued with a parking ticket. Hurray! Get out the
There’s a reason why almost every fairytale from around the world for centuries has begun with a beloved wife dying in childbirth and the arrival of an evil stepmother. This isn’t a curious coincidence or a lack of imagination on
Many, many years ago, a little girl called Harriet was bitterly disappointed on Christmas Day when, after ripping open all of her gifts, she discovered that she had not been given the pink Barbie camper van for which she had
I don’t claim, along with the late great American singer-songwriter Sam Cooke, to know much about history, biology or, indeed, a science book. Indeed, I think my only qualifications in the fields of science and medicine are a C-grade physics
A word of advice, chaps. The next time you head off for a night out on the tiles, don’t forget to take everything you might need with you. Wallet, phone and, if you hope to get lucky later on, maybe
