I overheard somebody the other day refer to a couple as "living over the brush". I hadn't heard that expression for a long, long time. What it means of course is that they are living together but not married. Today that's not exceptional, but not...

Sorry, but I welcome the Supreme Court's ruling that - effectively - banks are entitled to charge what they like to customers who go overdrawn without prior authorisation. What's the alternative? Why should people like me, who manage their finances...

Interesting suggestion in a letter to my paper the other day that controversy is part of the very soul of football, and that bringing in more officials, with or without technological aids, would change the essence of the game fundamentally. Would we...

Last Saturday was the 35th anniversary of the Birmingham pub bombings. One of the worst atrocities of the IRA's campaign on the British mainland, 21 people were killed and many more injured when bombs went off in two city centre pubs - The Mulberry...

The tragic story of the man who strangled his wife in his sleep took me back getting on for thirty years to when I was studying for a law degree. This very situation was discussed in theoretical terms as part of our study of the common law on crime. ...