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Jul 26 2007 3:22PM
Wheels of Shame....

The annual inhuman feat of the Tour (Im hooked: highlights every night on ITV4 ...), has again been brought into disrepute with a series of revelations about athletes using performance-enhancing drugs, leading to two whole teams being...

Jul 25 2007 3:36PM
Letting off steam

Well I’m just days back from New York where I was just yards away from Grand Central Station when a massive steam pipe explosion caused great consternation, forcing hordes of us off the subway and onto the streets of Manhattan. As you...

Jul 24 2007 4:43PM
You just have to wait

As the mighty Supremes once sang, you cant hurry love, you just have to wait - but were also apparently going to have to wait generations for gender equality in Britain. As the mighty Supremes once sang, you cant hurry love, you just...

Jul 23 2007 2:13PM
Introducing the press gang

I was surprised over the weekend to hear that President Bush had issued an executive order banning the CIA from using ‘cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment’ in US detention facilities. Isn’t that kind of treatment banned already? Our...

Jul 20 2007 10:44PM
The Forbidden Team, showing in Brixton

The Forbidden Team is being shown at the Ritzy in Brixton at 7 pm on Wednesday 8 August. That date is exactly one year before the Beijing Olympics. The film is about the Tibetan national football team. We are lucky that even if it is...