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\n \n The worst thing about the smoking ban \n

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\n As we know, the ban on smoking in public places, and the misery of being forced to stand outside like a naughty dog every time you want a fag, has caused almost everyone to give up. This has had a profound knock-on effect on our social lives.

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\n 01/23/10 4:01 pm

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\n \n Stop dribbling – your country needs you on the jury \n

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\n Last week the trial of four men accused of an armed raid at a Heathrow warehouse began in London. And for the first time in any criminal case in England and Wales for nearly 400 years, no jury was sworn in.

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\n 01/16/10 4:01 pm

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\n \n Mamma Mia! What an ordeal \n

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\n My youngest daughter was adamant. For her birthday treat she wanted to see the stage version of Mamma Mia!. In other words, she wanted me to drive her 70 miles to London. To find a parking space. To have a horrible lunch from the kids’ menu. And then she wanted to go to a stage play in which people burst into song for no reason.

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\n 01/09/10 4:01 pm

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\n \n Splosh - the march of progress is lost in a digital puddle \n

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\n Not that long ago, while I was attempting to make a small film about a man who commutes on the Thames from his home in west London to his office in the City, everything went a bit wrong.

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\n 01/02/10 4:01 pm

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\n \n So, Piggy, Buttocks and Rat – what shall we call Gordon? \n

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\n As we know, there is an awful lot wrong with the education system in Britain. Nobody learns to read or write, most children are stabbed, no primary teachers have scrotums, there are too many managers, history is almost nonexistent and too much emphasis is placed on league tables — it’s a school, for crying out loud, not the second division in football.

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\n 12/26/09 4:01 pm

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