80% and the Climate Change Aristocracy

The Independent newspaper announced yesterday that The UK should cut its greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80 per cent by mid-century, the Government's climate change committee recommended today. The committee said a more stringent target than the 60 per cent cut...

Oiling the Wheel of Despair at the Edge of Scare City

The future is bleak. That seems to be the message that everybody wheeled into the public spotlight is keen to tell us. Indeed, if you can't say that the future is bleak, you have no business being on the news.  Other than the current comparisons to today's economic...

Only Happy When It Rains

Bizarrely, this week's episode of Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's BBC Radio 4 series Laurence Llewelyn Bowen's History of Home, in which celebrity interior designer and big, flouncy ponce Laurence Llewelyn Bowen explores the history of our homes from the 1920s to the...

Contact problems

If you sent an email to us between mid August, and lunchtime today (GMT), the chances are we didn't get it. This is because we didn't maintain a mailbox properly.  It should be sorted out now. We've also been having reports of our contact page not working properly. If...