Why Mayors Become Suitable Cases for Treatment

There is nothing that better illustrates the snobbery of the British than how we fund ‘culture’. “Culture my arse”, as Jim Royle would say.

Reading’s new Conservative Leader’s first challenge is to say what his party will do were they to be given the chance.

Even if you like shopping as much as I do you won’t catch me getting out of bed on Boxing Day for a 5am opening. Is a proper holiday for retail staff?

Money buys privilege. It has done for centuries – why on earth should it change now. You can hardly blame people for thinking that was the deal.

Don’t you just laugh out loud when politicians try to wriggle out of trouble by claiming that they didn’t mean what they said.

We pay quite enough tax already. Unless we make it easier for people to recycle and help the environment we’ve are all on a loser.

Reading University’s authorities need to be serious about getting tough with their over-educated lager louts.

It’s good to see a new market in Reading – now its time to relocate the old one, preferably to the Falkland Islands

Whether Brown was right in his decision not to hold an election time will tell, but his explanation won’t wash and already looks like a catastrophe.