A little under 20 years ago I was news editor of the Big Issue in Scotland. As a young journalist, it was an exciting job and I felt I might be doing some good. One day I took a phone call from a woman who insisted she had a story for me but that we had […]
Why shouldn’t porn stars be in panto?
Craig’s not going to the ball this year… Poor Craig Chalmers. He has just been sacked from his next job, Playing Prince Charming in patio in Dunfermline. Craig was doing ever so well. Since appearing on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Any Dream Will Do he had established himself as a talented performer. I took my kids […]
Spelling mnemonic: Jimmy’s a vile man
There’s only one l in Savile and that’s how to remember.Every day brings more revelations of vile abuses be the children’s presenter once considered to be a national treasure. And we shake our heads and ask ourselves how this can have happened.When I was 10 or 11, I went on an Outward Bound course at […]