Reading about the life of Henry Allingham makes one feel humble that men such as this one fought and laid down their lives for our right to enjoy the freedom that we have. The contrasting feeling is the anger that I feel towards public officials who...

I am sure that I will not be alone in expressing my sympathy for the plight of Jade Goody. It is distressing to think of her children having to grow up without a mother. However I question the motives behind her courting of headlines at this difficult...

Rikki Flutey (above) who recently announced his transfer to France. The game of Rugby Union as fans know it will be gone forever unless Premiership Rugby and the RFU do something now to stop the wholesale loss of the nation’s top players to the...

The Dwaine Chambers saga rumbles on. The UK athletics authorities are putting themselves in the path of a legal steamtrain that could potentially end in disaster. It would seem to me that any athlete who is proved to have been using performance...

Does anyone else question the validity of athletes switching nationalities? Zola Budd completing the greatest long jump in history in leaping to the front of the British passport queue in time for the Olympic games in Los Angeles. Alan Lamb, Tony Gregg...

Gordon Brown never ceases to amaze me. His U-turn over a referendum over issues in Europe and his complete lack of appreciation about the difficulties people would face due to the abolition of the 10p tax rate. Now he is telling us all to stop wasting...

It never ceases to amaze me in this age of professional sport how quick people are to take the moral high ground. The argument over the Grant Elliott run out in the recent one day international is a case in point. By the ’spirit of the...

Finally the British government have made some sort of response to the attrocities being committed in the name of democracy by Robert Mugabe. Stripping him of his knighthood is a start but what about doing something that will really effect him? So he...

I suspect that most people have a similar reaction to me when we read about the increase in teen abortions in the United Kingdom - that of complete dismay. This is not caused,as many might suspect, by my being a practicing Christian or by the mechanics...

Isn’t it about time that the international communities took a stand against Robert Mugabe? The so called ‘election’ that is about to take place in Zimbabwe is a complete farce. The results of punishment beatings and killings have now...