I'd like to thank our MPs, and I'd like you to join me

Picture the scene. There you lie on your hospital bed, oxygen mask on, drugged up to the eyeballs, with a team of people fussing around you and saying all manner of things you don’t understand. All you know is that it’s serious, and the sense of imminent disaster is palpable. Why? Because you are in Accident and Emergency at St Thomas’ in London, and you are having a heart attack.

I'm sorry ladies, but Labour thinks you're second-best

I’m sorry ladies, but Labour thinks you’re second-best. Yes, that’s right: Labour is the party that has a problem with women.

Ian Duncan Smith wants to know if I'm fit for the workplace, but is the workplace fit for me?

Ian Duncan Smith’s (IDS) one-man mission to get Britain back to work continued apace yesterday when he provoked debate about whether there are individuals who could do some work for their benefits. I applaud his efforts.

I hate cheating, but not as much as a failure to forgive

Originally written for Dear Cupid – the free relationships advice site

IT’s been the story that hasn’t gone away all week. Ashley Madison sent journalists in to a spin trying to access the 9.7 gb of data leaked on to the internet, trying to find any public figures who may be embroiled in the scandal. Suspicious spouses have been trying to get at it, to find out whether their other half has been up to no good. Relate has been rather busy taking calls from scorned women, and the Daily Mail this week reported on the first British case of divorce proceedings being started as a result.

Labour: and so the disaster continues

Labour is now so gripped by paranoia that it’s gone on a purging frenzy so sudden and aggressive that even the most hardened Soviet apparatchik would probably tell this lot to calm down and have a few slugs of Vodka to steady the nerves before continuing to rigorously investigate who gets rejected and whose vote should retrospectively be cancelled.

British education and how I would fix it

In a previous article, I used the BBC’s 3-part documentary series chronicling an experiment in which Chinese teachers took on a class of British kids for a month, to describe the ways in which I believe British education is broken. As the series concluded, we saw that the Chinese teachers, despite battling nothing short of mutiny among their students, achieved results 10% above the rest of the year group in examinations set by an independent research body. It was a slap in the face to the previously uber-confident headmaster Neil Strowger, who predicted the failure of the Chinese school with alacrity. His response summarised everything objectionable about education today.

Dear Labour, you were once a formidible foe

Dear Labour,
My o my. What a pickle you are in. One should not only gently try and guide a friend heading down a calamitous path, but should be generous enough to do so also to a respectable foe, which you have proved over the years.

Sir Edward Heath: a name ruined for nothing

Operation what? Myra Ling-Ling who?
The Ted Heath saga continues as the mystery deepens.

British education and how it is broken

Why has it taken a BBC documentary, and a group of visiting teachers from China to bring their brand of education to Hampshire-based Bohunt School, to show us why our education system is so utterly broken? Why don’t we get it?