Charles Ellingworth

Life expectancy for males declines by one year every stop on the Jubilee Line east of Westminster. For a male in Russia it is only fifty nin...

Two dyslexics were sitting next to each other. ‘Can you smell smoke?’ ‘I can’t even spell my own name.’

Philippa Gregory was on the radio discussing the continuing fascination with the Tudors - particularly Henry VIII - a fascination that I don...

Charles Taylor, the Liberian warlord that made Sierra Leone a byword for a millennial heart of darkness, has just been found guilty in the H...

I have a friend who loves walking to the South Pole. I have asked him to kill me if I ever start talking about joining him; as he was in the...

A lap dancer has just won a case that established her as an employee of, rather than a contractor to, the club where she worked. Lap dancing...

My wife was telling me about the farmhouse in which she lived when she was at Kent University in the 1970s. The rent was very cheap because ...