Tony Blair's account of the personal spark with Gordon Brown that conceived New Labour helps to explain the complexity of the relationship and the torrent of vitriol that was unleashed when the passion cooled

Absolutely wonderful. Cheerfully swiped via Gerard

In a meeting last night, the San Francisco Commission of Animal Control and Welfare voted to table proposed legislation that would have banned all pet sales in the city. I wonder if the gerbil and hamster lovers lobby threatened to sue...

SPOTTING a grey squirrel in your back garden might seem like a stroke of luck to any nature lover – but if it happens to you, you may be a step away from breaking the law.

When summing up how his star-crossed lovers might feel once they had been re-united in the course of a long and complex plot, the genius comic writer P.G.Wodehouse would often use a phrase such as this - "He felt that all was absolutely for the best in this best of all possible worlds". On a beautiful summer evening yesterday, as birds twittered, along with most of the media chatterati, and touris...

When a minister resigns over paying rent to his secret gay lover, it is a sure sign that political life has slipped to scandalously low levels.

David Laws is all over the web after saying today that he has paid a high price for keeping his sexuality secret. It's nothing to do with his sexuality. As someone has well phrased it, he put money in his lover's pocket. Forget the sophistry about was he or wasn't he a partner. Clearly he was. Even if a legalistic case could be made (which only further disfigures any notion of hones...

Bacon lovers, this bagel’s for you: Brooklyn baker crafts bacon, egg and cheese bagel.

A pretty magnificent headline from the BBC, this: Srebrenica gay theory irks Dutch And the story itself, for once, almost lives up to the billing: [S]peaking at a US Senate hearing on allowing gay people to serve openly in the US military... Gen Sheehan [John Sheehan, a former Nato commander] said the former chief of staff of the Dutch army had told him that the presence of openly gay soldiers in ...

Hallelujah! At last. At last we have at least a little momentum back in the public exposition of the ridiculous nonsense that passes for the parliamentary career of Ms Nadine Bargery-Dorries Mum-P and her unraveling tales from mid-Narnia. And, to be fair, she has not disappointed. You really couldn't make it up. The Daily Telegraph today reveal an extraordinary plan by an associate of the Mum...