Hi Everyone I read this week about a lady who is attempting to visit 50 cities before she reaches the age of fifty. That does not sound...

Hi Everyone This week, I read that one of our young tennis stars was affected in a negative way by some of the posts she had seen on her...

Hi Everyone Some of the most feared and unpopular world leaders like Putin, that funny little man from North Korea, and Mr China, seem to...

Hi Everyone As a boy at school, I did not appear to have had a problem learning to read and write. This week one of our best celebrity...

Hi Everyone One of he things that we probably hear too often is the question “Is Britain broken?”. In a radio interview, a politician...

Hi Everyone One of the first jobs I did when I went to work for the Funeral Director and the bricklayer of dubious ability in 1960 was to...

Hi Everyone When we were kids, I remember that you could buy Ostermilk, which came in a large tin. I have no idea what the contents of...

Hi Everyone This week, our national broadcasting company, the BBC, is asking people how they see the future of the organisation due to...

Ho Everyone Now I bet that you think that the challenging approach to middle age is not something to look forward to but I can tell you...

Hi Everyone Back in 1970, yes, all that long time ago, we had a holiday on the Greek island of Rhodes. A few years before we were there,...

Hi Everyone This week, I asked my friend Google why we give each other Easter eggs. It is, of course, because an egg symbolises new life,...

Hi Everyone Last week we travelled nearly two hundred miles to a f------. He was a cousin on the Senior Partner's side of the family,...

Hi Everyone I suppose that nearly all of us have had Liberation Days along the way. After years of the "best time in your life", it was...

Hi Everyone About two years ago in this Rubbish I explained that as teenagers, if you can remember that far back, we had a little of our...

Hi Everyone In Washington DC there is the John F Kennedy Centre for the Performing Arts. Every year people are honoured for their...

Hi Everyone This week the word "decay" came to my attention. Firstly, the government will spend millions of pounds encouraging and...

Hi Everyone When the terrible events of 9/11 took place, all the NATO countries quite properly regarded it as an attack on themselves as...

Hi Everyone I bet that every one of us remembers who the bullies were when we were at school. We kept away from them as much as possible...

Hi Everyone I heard someone say this week that to make sense of the world we live in at the moment is to escape into music, art, theatre...

Hi Everyone This is just a very small example of how bureaucracy and regulation have changed over the last nearly seventy years. When we...