Can I really be alone? Can I really be the only Brit to find Murray's post-Wimbledon blubbering neither moving nor touching but mawkish, inappropriate and self-indulgent?

What has become of our age-old stiff upper lip, bulldog spirit and blitzkrieg defiance? Since when did grown sportsmen - worse, British ones -...

In the wake of our plodding footballers and hard-to-love tennis players, why do we insist on worshipping the least deserving sporting heroes?

Despite England's stolid Euro 2012 performance and Andy Murray's ill-tempered excuses - blaming his mistakes on everything from his shorts to his trainer - they have been...

Education Secretary Michael Gove plans to scrap dumbed-down GCSEs and reintroduce O-levels, a tougher benchmark. And who can argue with his thinking?

I took my O-levels 26 years ago, one of the last to do so before their abolition in 1988. Since then grades have consistently risen as standards...

Tony Nicklinson is an intelligent, happily married, loving father-of-two. He also has locked-in-syndrome: an acute brain trapped in a defunct, mute body.

Paralysed after a stroke in 2005, he is wholly reliant on others for his every need. He can only communicate by means of a computer that translates blinks...

We're all in this together? Not since Marie Antoinette's infamous "let them eat cake" has a phrase so neatly captured the class divide.

For despite what the likes of David Cameron and his erstwhile chum, the former Sun editor Rebekah Brooks, might once have thought - we are blatantly not...

I've never propositioned a man in the Gents before. And certainly not at Lord's. But I'm loathe to squander an opportunity, however awkward.

Mark Billingham is just too incongruous to ignore. Sporting a Hawaiian shirt, a diamond stud and a cowpoke's goatee, he is the only man in a 100-yard...

Murdoch's empire is, as empires must, beginning to crumble.

For a media Midas who, for so long, seemed infallible, a master of manipulation, the ends are unravelling with startling speed.

The mistakes and misdemeanours were, of course, reprehensible.

From Milly Dowler to 9/11, the News of the World's alleged...

It has been a woeful week to be a hack. And it just got worse. The phone hacking scandal that threatened to engulf us all has sunk the News of the World.

A best-selling newspaper that launched in 1843 closes for good on Sunday. None should delight in its closure....