On the Press Association training scheme my tutors and visiting speakers can never resist a 5-45 minute throwback to Fleet Street's hey days when drink and smoke rivalled oxygen, and few monitored what they ate. It's like one scriptwriter printed out a copy of the same speech for all of...

Sean Penn has just added to the farce that is the Falklands/Malvinas Cat Fight.

From the minute 2012 rolled around, and with it a heap of empty Falklands chat, I made a conscious decision to ignore it. Given the number of lives lost over these pesky rocks, and the strong...

Meryl Streep's performance is outstanding - definitely Oscar-worthy - and as a portrayal of a mentally decaying woman, it is truly touching. But this could be the crux of the problem I have with The Iron Lady. As Matthew D'Ancona chortled in yesterday's Evening Standard, "this time the greying anti-Thatcher...