AFTER years of seeking to sweep it under the carpet, Gordon Brown has finally addressed the issue of the corruption of Hamid Karzai’s Afghan regime head-on.
THE Home Secretary Alan Johnson has at last stepped on to the national stage as a leading man. What he wants to lead is not entirely clear – but who knows? – it could even be the Labour Party.
CYCLAMEN are among the most traditional of winter pot plants – old faithfuls that our grandparents treasured and kept for many years, like old friends.
THE problem with global warming is that it comes with a Doomsday warning. And since man first started trying to tell the future by reading the entrails of chickens, doom-mongers have had a hard time.
I NEVER thought it would come to this but I am beginning to sympathise with MPs. No, not the tawdry embezzlers exposed since May but two other categories.
THIS is the land where football fans take loaves of bread into the stands to wave at opposition supporters and scrawl felt-tip messages to the manager and the chairman on their bloomers and their baguettes.
IN September 1962, amidst a growing public debate about the possibility of Britain joining the European Community, the Labour leader Hugh Gaitskell told his party’s conference: “We must be clear about this: it does mean, if this is the idea, the end of Britain as an independent European state. It means the end of a thousand years of history.”