Two victim groups enter, one group leaves. Personally, I'm thinking of starting a sweepstake on what happens first: dawn raids in Brighton or the BBC admitting that incidents like this may shed some light on why Christians might just be a little hostile to handing over their Churches to you-know-who for their little ceremonies.

Neither David Cameron nor Nick Clegg is a fan of Chris Huhne. The Prime Minister would, by all accounts, shed few tears if Huhne had to step down.   But I suspect that the deputy Prime Minister will be hoping that tomorrow does not bring any adverse developments for the Energy and Climate Change Secretary. If there were to be charges, Clegg would be placed in a very difficult position. He wou...

Don't worry, I don't mean the Indian economy or anything like that. Just their cricket team. Indulge me. Or just skip this. I promise you that this posting is pure cricket, and that it will shed no light whatever on Real Life. Australia are already one up in their four match series, at home against India, and game two just began in Sydney, late last night London time. India lost two earl...

Christmas carols give us all licence to shed a sentimental tear, says Michael White.

Despite uncertainty over the statistics (don’t worry, this isn’t a post about p-values and standard deviations), we can say with some confidence (say, 95%) that the UK jobs market remains in a volatile state with many people out of work or underemployed. With public sector jobs being shed rapidly as a result of austerity measures,

The men in sheds thing is moving forwards, perhaps in part fuelled by the success of the Aussie inspired Movember thing - combined with the idea that men's health is better served by sheds where men can tinker rather than being nagged by health professionals / wives idea. Just another thing that we can also thank those who used to good a cricket for. The Daily Telegraph is going shed nuts rig...

Anthony Lane is one of the finest film critics at work today, and his reviews for the New Yorker are always worth reading, not just for their fine, literary, perceptive commentary, suffused with the empathy of the genuine film-goer and a pervasive wit, but also for the light he manages to shed on one of the central elements of our contemporary culture. In this week's edition, he uses his review of...

The Shed, End of the garden, Woking 11 Oct 2011 Dear Sir/ Madam / Person of indeterminate gender, Whilst I have long taken a traditional view of accounting practices and have till now believed what's mine is mine, what's your in yours, I can see that we live in extraordinary times. I am also aware of the heavy responsibility as a consumer of Chinese electronics, Polish labour, German eng...

Police forces in the North East and Cumbria will shed more than 1,200 officers yet London Mayor Boris Johnson is promising to protect police numbers in the capital.

Aberdeenshire Council is set to shed more than 180 pupil assistant posts in a bid to address a budget overspend.