There's lots to admire in Jonathan Wilson's Nobody Ever Says Thank You, an exhaustively complete biography of Brian Clough.

Aside from recounting the bluster and the bust-ups, the book is forensic in its dissection of the mechanics of Clough's career, generally skimming over the famous outbursts and focusing instead on...

I'm not a regular reader of the Southern Daily Echo, but a piece I came across through a Twitter link this week caught my eye.

Ahead of the South Coast derby match between Portsmouth and Southampton later this month the paper carried a for-and-against piece on plans by...

For decades British politicians have enjoyed jokes at the expense of their Italian counterparts.

Rattling through governments at an alarming rate, post-1945 politics in Italy has been as volatile as it has shambolic.

That the term in office of Silvio Berlusconi, a man whose various interests conflict so badly they...

The most striking part of Johann Hari's latest attempt to draw a line under the slow-motion crisis threatening his glittering career in journalism is a quote many outside the profession will find absurd.

As well as handing back the Orwell Prize he seemed certain to lose in any event, the...