July 2023

NOW here’s a funny thing. I went to Scarborough the other day. No, that’s not the funny bit. What’s funny is that my wife and I left the house at the same time on Tuesday morning and she got to London, which is 200 miles from Leeds, two hours before I got to Scarborough, which […]

AS challenges go, it is likely to be slightly harder than completing a leisurely round of golf. Golfing pals David Knaggs and Richard Larking have set themselves the formidable goal of rowing 3,000 miles across the Atlantic Ocean. It hasn’t been dubbed “the World’s Toughest Row” for nothing. David and Richard, two Leeds-based lawyers who were introduced

“I FELT I had to do this because shouting at the telly every night didn’t seem to work.” That’s how businessman Nick Palmer explains his decision to stand as an independent candidate in next week’s by-election in Selby and Ainsty. The vote was triggered when the constituency’s Conservative MP Nigel Adams, a Boris Johnson loyalist,

FAREWELL then, Lord Bob Kerslake. The career civil servant, who has died of cancer aged just 68, held roles including Head of the Civil Service, Permanent Secretary for the Department for Communities and Local Government and chief executive of the Homes and Communities Agency, the national housing and regeneration agency for England. It was in