The government is planning to create a national reading competition in England to encourage a love of books and boost children's literacy.

It’s such a gloriously fun occupation, isn’t it?

The Daisey thing has got picked up by The Guardian and I’m mentioned in it. It’s really rather fun in the comments: we’ve even got someone flat out insisting that UK GDP per capita in 1600, or Chinese in 1978, could not possibly be only $950 a year because it’s impossible to survive on £2

It is always good fun when right-wing Tories get all het up about Nick Clegg, fulminating that David Cameron should jolly well do something about it. Norman Tebbit provides today’s entertainment along these lines under the headline: Nick Clegg needs cutting down to size. If only the Prime Minister was brave enough to do the

Comedian Phill Jupitus is starring in a new political satire called Big Society!, a spoof music hall show poking fun at Prime Minister David Cameron, the coalition government and pretty much everyone else in a position of power.

With small cars majoring in fun and frugality. In Renault-speak, VVT stands for intelligent. Further inclusions run to a wide cross section of buyers. Go too sporty and for every customer that's enthused, you risk alienating another but tread a conservative path and there's loads of seat adjustment for the renault clio dynamique 2001, the 1.6-litre VVT unit has 109bhp, so it isn't t...

At the ASI. What fun as everyone gets downgraded.

Mandy Golding, a London headteacher, who has died of cancer aged 54, lived a life underpinned by a powerful sense of social justice. Well known before her marriage as the political campaigner Mandy Mudd, she was a vibrant personality with a mischievous sense of fun, a generous heart and a great capacity for love. Brought up in Richmond, North Yorkshire, and educated at Liverpoo...

Nice piece from GT: China considered as human resources dictatorship. Western New Year parties are more associated with getting drunk and getting off with colleagues. But Chinese ones come with a grim type of organized "fun." ... ...These parties should...

There was a fun game we used to play during Gordon Brown's premiership: counting the number of ‘buck up, or we kick you out’ ultimatums that Labour MPs delivered to their leader. There were, suffice to say, a lot of them. And tallying them up they illustrated two things: the constant, sapping pressure that the Brown leadership was under, and Labour's persistent inability to a...