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Huhne's real sentence is the lost love of his son
I thought the Leveson Inquiry into Press ethics had at least brought us to a better understanding on the difference between the public interest and things the public were interested in.
Government's bedroom tax is the stuff of nightmares
Ours, people of the UK, is a tough life. And a good thing too; toughness gives you strength. There are too many shirkers out there who aren't contributing to the rehabilitation of our recession-racked state.
Coronation Street should have held fire on plot
In these times of too much information, film and TV fans often go to huge lengths not to ruin movies and shows for those who haven't yet seen them.
Liam's love for home town is no act ...
Like anyone who's ever been to Cushendall, I was shocked and disappointed not to see Robert De Niro in Ballymena supporting his old pal Liam Neeson as he was awarded the freedom of the City of the Seven Towers this week.
Giving Colin red card was an own goal
If the BBC were hoping to show their big names they're willing to cast aside funny, independent-minded bright sparks to placate older, slower, more famous stalwarts, sacking Colin Murray from Match of the Day 2 is a brilliant way to go about it.
Katie Price's celebrity craving comes at too high a price
Jordan, now known as Katie Price, has always been a trailblazer.
How inspiring Obama took his cue just like a real movie star
As a keen politico, I've always been a fan of Obama's. As a film enthusiast, I love him even more.
Hotelier Mark's snobbery fills me with reservations
As someone with a ravenous curiosity about other folks' lives, I've spent decades trying to work out the best way to spy on as many people as possible.
It had its faults, but I will still sing a lament for HMV chain
I'm under no illusions that HMV was a bastion of integrity compared to the many independent hives of music-love, such as Terry Hooley's legendary Good Vibrations store, it out-survived.
Megan is foxy but spare me her views
I have written before about how magazine interviews with female celebrities have set new lows in vapidity.
I can't see old John getting over this hurdle
I'm delighted to see national treasure John McCririck isn't taking his sacking from Channel 4 Racing lying down, even though, judging from his stint on Wife Swap, lying down is how he appears to take most things, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Keeping up with Kim's $10m baby
For most first-time mums, the months before birth are a time to pause, reflect and contemplate a beckoning new life in which previous experiences of love are likely to be usurped by something as yet beyond the imagination.
We all love a good laugh? You've got to be joking
Everyone knows the British love a good moan. We're famous for it. People come from all over the world just to watch us stand dutifully in queues complaining about having to queue.
A knight of road, but he'd rather jam with Weller
As someone drawn to any sports star who betrays a personality beyond the self-fixated, deadly dull one which total dedication to a single activity usually creates, I'll enjoy seeing Bradley Wiggins saunter - or maybe cycle (would they let a knight of the realm chain his bike to the palace railings?
Nolan is speaking for us all ... but is anyone at the BBC listening to him?
Stephen Nolan is a man who likes a crusade (though I happen to know he refuses to get behind the 'pavement dog doo' protests, regardless of his exercised listeners) but his recent paroxysms of exasperation on 5Live about the absence of interest in events in Northern Ireland are not merely justified, they are crucial to the BBC's credibility.
Will this love match be home or away?
I've never understood the enthusiasm some women have for becoming WAGs.
This relentlessly grim soap and the hordes of bargain hunters are not my idea of Christmas
As usual, I found the audience figures for Christmas day TV totally baffling.
Feisty Charlotte and brave Malala inspirations to us all
So 2012 draws a close, a year we in the UK will remember for two very different things.
Why the cinema is real theatre of dreams
As more people turn their living rooms into shrines to television, settling into their armchairs every night to gaze at the huge, glowing plasma god which dominates their domestic vista, I am heartened by the trend for movies that insist on cinema attendance.
Will Kate get a snowman at Christmas?
Isn't it fascinating to find out how celebrities plan to spend their Christmas? The festive period is always awash with tiny, personal details about how the other half live and I for one can't get enough of these enlightening missives from the land of the rich and famous.
Facebook too old, say teens
Twitter booming as social media destination
In pictures: UK Soap Awards
In Pictures: North West 200
In Pictures: Balmoral Show
Nice-but-dull Kate's annoying baby bump pose
FHM's sexiest women - Kunis knocks Tulisa off her perch
Latest News
Attack on Woolwich soldier is 'not like IRA' terror threat new
Terrorism experts have said the killing of a man believed to be a soldier is a "departure" from previous attacks and represents a "new round of terror threats in this country".
Face transplant 'quickest ever' new
A 33-year-old Polish man has received a face transplant just three weeks after being disfigured in a workplace accident in what his doctors have described as the fastest time frame to date for such an operation.
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Horrific footage emerged this evening of one of the alleged Woolwich attackers, heavily bloodied and saying: "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth."
Latest Sport
Former Manchester United defender Brian Greenhoff dies, aged 60 new
Former Manchester United and England defender Brian Greenhoff has died, aged 60.
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