Ever heard of Kindle? Or Nook? If you haven’t you most certainly will as it would seem the days of paper-based books and newspapers appear to be numbered. Although when exactly – if ever – e-readers like Kindle or Nook will successfully...

“ME AND MY BIG MOUTH” These are his own words by the way. Of all people on this planet Stephen Fry would be the very last person in my opinion to express disparaging remarks about other nations. Yet, quite uncharacteristically for him, he did....

Matt Bianco fans have a reason to be cheerful this autumn. Basia, whose voice is familiar to anyone who in the early 1980s danced to Whose Side Are You On?, is back with a new album. (Oh, ok, the album was released a few months ago, but I only just...

My occasional series Pole poll is back with a bang. Well, with a flash – as today’s ’subject’ is a Pole, but also a very fine photographer. He’s also very private, so I’ve abandoned the usual format of five questions and five answers to concentrate...

It’s a strange thing. My first ever visit to the UK years ago brought me to Birmingham, as my family lived in Worcestershire and I had to change there. My first impression? “God, this place is as ugly as Katowice!” Katowice is a big city in the south...