Following on from this talk with Tom Burroughes (mp3 here) and this talk with Antoine Clarke and Michael Jennings (mp3 here), comes this conversation, recorded last Thursday evening, between me and Michael J. What Michael thinks is now being done wrong and what Michael thinks should now be done instead didn’t take that long for him to say, or for me to agree about.  Basically, dump the ...

The BBC reckons 32 MPs have lost confidence in Michael Martin, with many more very concerned by the Damian Green affair. The Sunday Times reports that Michael Martin plans to 'go on and on', he will not only refuse to resign now, he will even try to continue on beyond the next election. Let me tell you what I think about Michael Martin. I think a lot of the attacks he has faced have been...

Two more biographies of Michael Jackson have been commissioned by UK publishers, following his sudden death last week. Michael O’Mara’s Michael Jackson: Legend 1958-2009 will be published on 1st September, while Carlton Books is rushing out an illustrated biography of Michael Jackson, with an October publication. I’m thinking of writing a novel. A rogue biographer will

Patrick Crozier recently did a podcast interview with our own Michael Jennings, on the subject of businesses that are now failing, which I heartily recommend. Michael zeroed in, in particular, on bookshops, spectacles, newspapers and – very topically for today (although the conversation itself took place a short while ago) – postal services. A particular point which Michael emp...

Ok, well, in for a penny..... I notice that Fraser has published a full account on Coffee House of his interview with Michael Gove. It shows how Michael told him of his reasons for his home moves long before the...

Michael Gove is Conservative MP for Surrey Heath, and Shadow Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families. He is the author of Michael Portillo, The Price of Peace and Celsius 7/7, and writes regularly for The Times. Here he...

After reading some of the comments about Michael Foot, it seems to me the stance comrades take towards this man is often generational. Those like myself, who remember him mainly as a Minister in the 1976-79, Callagham government, and when Labour Party leader, are far more less forgiving than those who first became aware of Michael earlier in his career, when he was socialist agitator, editor ...

(1) A Cathay Pacific Flight between Hong Kong and London - July 1987 Michael's mother: "I would like a Coke" Michael "I would like a Coke, too Flight attendant "Ah… Two". (Three glasses of Coca-Cola arrive soon afterwards). (2) An expat bar in Maputo, Mozambique, February 2007. Michael: "Two-Em", please. Michael points to a beer tap marked "2M". Of course, the name of the beer...

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In an excellent column by Iain Martin in today's Telegraph, Sir Michael Caine is quoted denouncing the new 50% top rate of tax. Sir Michael goes on to say that he, undoubtedly like so many other wealthy and successful Britons,...