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Should the taxman get busy with the fizzy?
Float(ing) vote Obesity is a political issue. Is it the state’s job to control what we eat? At their annual conference next month, Lib Dems will debate the introduction of a tax on fizzy drinks....
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Gastronome’s golden breadcrumb treasury
As autumn approaches, I want to share some of my most golden culinary moments. My goal: to bring a little summer sunshine back into your lives. So by popular demand, here are some photographic...
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Art of protest
Coulrophobia is the scientific name for the ‘fear of clowns’ It’s a miserably damp Monday morning. I am at Tate Britain with my friend Ruth Dudley Edwards to see the Stuckists demonstrate outside the...
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I missed your birthday
Happy Birthday. I made you this cake out of old brackets… The emoticon is 30. Well it was 30, on the 19th of September. Somehow I missed it. Sorry, emoticon.
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Mummy’s birthday
Photogenic Pharaoh The undead spirit of Tutankhamun has stalked the earth for exactly 90 years. Accidentally re-tuning all the buttons on the Internet radio to pick up BBC Radio 3 isn’t quite as...
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Who’s forging the faulty links in our food chain?
Horses for courses (starters, mains, puddings…) Eating horse meat is a question of taste. What’s disturbing is what the horse meat scandal tells us about the integrity of the food chain This morning’s...
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Labels are for bottles, not people
One for the road Is telling us we’re “binge drinkers” the best way to tackle damaging drinking? According to research by University College London, published today in The European Journal of Public...
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Inside out
Cat nap* “Before I could reply, Gowing said there was nothing so completely uninteresting as other people’s dreams.” Are other people’s dreams really boring? Scientists in Japan don’t think so. Using...
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Eggheads confirm we live in a material world
Goldfingers Can money buy you happiness? Yes. A research study by the University of Michigan has found that mo’ money does not mean mo’ problems. Reported in today’s City AM, the study identifies a...
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It’s good to be the king!
Today over 3.5 million people in Britain run their own business. In 1979 there were only 800,000 companies in the country. In an interview in today’s Times, Lord Young of Graffham (David Cameron’s...
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It’s not rubbish that needs more room
It’s bin a while…* It’s easy to fall out of the habit of blogging. Eric Pickles has enticed me back to the keyboard. Communities and Local Government Minister Eric Pickles wants to tackle the menace...
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Dirty cash. Mucky tablets. Filthy phones.
Money laundering – presoak! Germs are everywhere this week. And I mean everywhere. Still reeling from the revelation that Britain’s new plasticky bank notes will provide a cosy home for E.Coli and...
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Population explosion
There are going to be more Lego people than human beings by 2019 (Peter Spence, City AM). But the surprising thing is that the mini-figures have only been around since 1978. No offence to Lego – it...
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