Jonathan Ross is being let off the hook and allowed to return to his various duties in January. He will retain his £18million contract. Did anyone seriously imagine there would be any other outcome?
I DISCOVERED my inner Viking this week. A few weeks ago I sent off a CSI-style mouth swab to Oxford Ancestors which uses the DNA to find which of the world’s 36 female and 15 male clans you are descended from.
THE pirates are back. Out of the ports of Somalia come sea raiders armed to the teeth in fast boats and with amazing skill to intercept, board, capture and hold hostage ships, crews and cargoes daring to come anywhere near their coast.
IN a long list of instructions to civil servants, Liam Byrne, Gordon Brown’s new enforcer, asks them not to tell him what they think he should know but what they expect he might be asked.