Manic Street Preachers: A Design for Life

When choosing a Neil Young track five years I reminisced about the 1996 Phoenix Festival. As I said then, Manic Street Preachers sounded gr...

Why Nicky Morgan upsets Tory campaign chiefs

James Forsyth writes in the Mail on Sunday: In recent weeks, there have been whispers at Westminster that Tory campaign chiefs have been di...

Al Murray on Russell Brand

The Pub Landlord is interviewed by the Independent: " What you have to admire about Russell is he what he might lack in serious argume...

Six of the Best 488

Confessions of a Skeptic looks at the terms of reference for the government's historical child abuse inquiry: "There are one or tw...

A kingfisher on the Welland in Market Harborough

There were no signs of the otters this morning, but I did another welcome new resident of this stretch of the Welland.

Northamptonshire TV star Spinach the llama celebrates his 20th birthday today

Happy birthday to Spinach and congratulations to the Northants Herald & Post for winning Headline of the Day,

Harborough Otter Spotter

Otter hunting in the urban environment part 1 from James Burman on Vimeo . Fans of Market Harborough's latest wildlife sensation will...

Jonathan Meades on how writers invent places not describe them

Jonathan Meades reviews Nairn's London for the Literary Review and in the course of doing so says something profound about topographica...

Shirley Williams on Testament of Youth

View image | gettyimages.com Jasper Rees has interviewed Shirley Williams about the film of her mother Vera Brittain's autobiographica...