November 2025

WELCOME to a Budget free commentary zone. That is for two reasons. Firstly, we seem to have been talking about it for months – the “Autumn Budget” came so late that it was virtually covered in a hoary early winter frost by the time Rachel Reeves approached the despatch box in the House of Commons […]

I’VE always hankered after being mistaken for somebody famous or successful. But with my looks and talent, that doesn’t happen very often. Last week was different. I paid a visit to iconic North Leeds Italian restaurant The Flying Pizza, now part of the San Carlo stable, for the first time in a while. There were

ALONGSIDE its hard won reputation for having the worst train station to get to in the whole of the UK, Leeds now has a slightly more esteemed claim to fame. The city is home to a pub that has recently been proclaimed number one in a list of the 100 top boozers in Britain. The

THE way we watch TV is changing. I know you know that already. The days of a family gathering around the TV set to watch a favourite programme at a particular time have long gone. But the new landscape that replaced it – streaming services like Netflix, Amazon and Apple TV are now facing a