The wife of Labour leadership candidate Ed Balls has asked the public not to take matters into their own hands after the hapless politician was found in a wheelie bin outside his own house

Apple Announces iPhone 4S CUPERTINO, California—July 7, 2010—Apple® today introduced the all-new iPhone ® 4S , the world’s most desirable mobile telephone, capable of making telephone calls and accessing the internet while held in the left hand.  The revolutionary new ‘TalkTime’ feature enables iPhone 4S to transfer speech and data through a 3G connection.  The [...]

Mr Bennett was a great teacher who inspired us to want to learn Latin. For that he surely deserves to be remembered. His infectious enthusiasm for his teaching, his love of distance running and his dedication to charity work established him as a teacher pupils in the school wanted to be taught by. He was [...]

Brian Cowen, Ireland’s Prime Minister, has ‘not given up hope’ on finding a buyer for the beleaguered nation, as evidenced in photos on the website of the Roinn an Taoisigh.

Little to say about this wonderful new take on the inflight safety video, except the obvious comment that, if it makes people look at the video and stop irritatingly talking through the safety announcements, flights will be more beautiful things.  Pity one can’t see anything though!  Air New Zealand for the win!

As a straight man, I love Dublin Pride as a spectacle above all. A festival of bright colour, an astoundingly optimistic and positive oasis in a year where all news seems to be bad. Today was great fun, and took place in sweltering, vicious sun. These photos, all taken with the camera on the iPhone [...]

I am moved by the lovely and fragrant @sharonashambles on twitter to tell a story about people advising others on how to vote.

Susan Boyle, runner up in Britain’s Got Talent 2009, will be installed on the empty fourth plinth at Trafalgar Square, according to a press release issued by 10 Downing Street this morning. The Prime Minister, Gordon Brown, has been concerned that the singer, praised for her astounding voice during auditions for the talent show, has [...]

Cecil Troughson, Labour MP for Lower Grifting South and Much Moaning, guest blogs today on the expenses furore engulfing the Westminster village. Back in the eighties, when the Trades Unions were able to afford much more worthwhile expenses accounts, it was a point of honour that all Labour MPs took from the Fees Office was [...]