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Picture of the Week: Soggy socked Sam

The plight of Somerset’s ‘King Canute’ Sam Notaro sums up how bad flooding in the UK is   The arrogance of government ministers about flooding and the many victims who’ve been underwater since December has been...

Who hasn’t Liz been with?

Revelations of an affair between Bill Clinton and Liz Hurley sound a little far fetched   “Don’t be silly” said Liz Hurley after it was revealed that the model and actress may have had an affair...

Transport for Laziness

Low and high paid TFL employees shown for what they truly are   Bob Crow rightly is taking the brunt of the criticism for the London Underground strikes but it turns out there are two very...

Is it really a billionaires’ wasteland?

Debate about empty homes on The Bishops Avenue continues   In recent days there has been much debate about the many empty mansions on North London’s The Bishops Avenue. Uproar from campaigners against homelessness has been...

Reassessing immigration

Henry Irwin Pesch reviews ‘D’ORA: The Romanian Immigrant’   D’ORA by Delia Antal is not just another film. No, it’s not a film made by some amateur looking to get into the film business. It’s not...

Jim’s regeneration

Will victory in ‘Celebrity Big Brother’ relaunch Jim Davidson’s career?   If Jim Davidson were a product, he’d be Marmite. This entertainer polarises the nation due to his acidic style of humour and even after having...

The forgotten victims

Two cases that illustrate that it is often the victim who is forgotten   Today, there have been developments in the murder cases of Meredith Kercher in Italy and Anni Dewani in South Africa. Reporting on...

McLoughlin’s lament

Conman Tom McLoughlin cautioned for assault   The ex-jailbird Thomas McLoughlin should now have learnt his lesson. This nasty piece of work, I today learnt, has been given a police caution for common assault after attacking...

A hacked trial

Phone hacking trial is becoming a joke   Jude Law’s relative, it turns out, was sharing information with the News of the World, Colin Montgomerie’s ex-wife got mixed up about what was said to her at...

Banking with Brown

Gordon Brown’s benefits from having been Prime Minister exposed   Gordon Brown was undoubtedly one of Britain’s worst Prime Ministers. He was also the Chancellor who gave away our gold and a man known for his...

The entertainers

As 1970s relics appeared in court, Matthew Steeples calls for Operation Fernbridge to be treated more seriously   Rolf Harris, William Roache and Dave Lee Travis each appeared in courts yesterday in relation to separate sexual...

Picture of the Week: Banning the bomb

American Embassy does not welcome guns and bombs   Submitted by a reader, our Picture of the Week was taken inside the American Embassy in Grosvenor Square and illustrates how stupid “health and safety” posters truly...

‘Vamp in Veil’ as she’d rather not be seen

New photos of Sara Al Amoudi published   Our features on the ‘Vamp in the Veil’ Sara Al Amoudi have attracted much interest as plainly there is much more to the case brought against her than...

Wally of the Week: David Irving

David Irving’s legal action against the BBC over a programme presented by Jeremy Clarkson represents yet another low for this disgraced historian   On Sunday The Telegraph’s Richard Eden reported that the Holocaust denier David Irving...

Wally of the Week: David Irving

David Irving’s legal action against the BBC over a programme presented by Jeremy Clarkson represents yet another low for this disgraced historian   On Sunday The Telegraph’s Richard Eden reported that the Holocaust denier David Irving...

Blairing Huffington

Arianna Huffington launches new website with Tony Blair and Bill Gates as contributors   Huffington Post founder Arianna Huffington is a lady who reels in the influencers and in her latest move in founding a new...

A January rant

Irene Ramsay shares her post-Christmas blues   Waking up in January 2014 and glancing in the mirror has revealed that an entire month of disgusting excess has taken its toll. It all starts with the irritating...

Prycing a resolution

Vicky Pryce shares her New Year’s resolutions with ‘The Telegraph’   Vicky Pryce, the disgraced former wife of the equally disgraceful Chris Huhne, shared her New Year’s resolutions with The Telegraph yesterday. They summed her up...

Goodbye 2013

Thoughts for the year ahead   2013 has not been the best of years. We’ve lost Margaret Thatcher and Sir David Frost and the word “selfie” has entered the Oxford English Dictionary. The economy has not...

Bullish bravado

Red Bull founder’s grandson remains subject to an arrest warrant   In a case that echoes that of Florida’s John Goodman trial, 28-year old Vorayuth Yoovidhya – the grandson of the founder of Red Bull –...

Merry Christmas from ‘The Steeple Times’

Wishing our readers a very Merry Christmas   As we all head home for the holidays, may we take this opportunity to wish you all a very Merry Christmas. We’ve had a busy year at The...

To your health

Anthony Mamo shares his views on the release of Mikhail Khodorkovsky   Yesterday, by virtue of executive order #922 signed by the President of Russia himself, Mikhail Khodorkovsky was freed from prison and is now in Germany...

#TeamTrouble

The not guilty verdict in the case of the former assistants to Charles Saatchi and Nigella Lawson’s highlights nothing but the mess that was their marriage   #TeamNigella has trended on Twitter in recent weeks. Even...

Matching Miller

Miller Philanthrophy pledge to double every donation received this Christmas   Many charities rack up huge bills for the salaries and expenses of their executives. The Miller Philanthropy charitable foundation, however, takes a very different approach...

Your Country Needs You

Original Scotland Yard site to become hotel ‘of the quality of Chateau Marmont’   An Edwardian building on the site of the original Scotland Yard is to be converted into a 92,000 square foot, 235-bedroom 5-star...

A Thunderclap for Jimmy Higham

Zach Topley urges readers to give a Thunderclap for Jimmy Higham   Jimmy Higham, a teacher at Wellington College in Berkshire tragically died from cancer back in 2011, aged just 26. Jimmy was a hard-working,...

Harassing Harrods

Assange takes on Harrods   Revelations that the biopic based upon his life, The Fifth Estate, has flopped at the box office and took just $6 million against a $28 million budget no doubt cheered Julian...

How not to park

Range Rover totals a Porsche in Moore Street, Chelsea   The power of social media was illustrated this morning when two readers of The Steeple Times, Quirina Louwman and Edward Thomson, shared images of a Range...

Picture of the Week: A tribute to JFK

President Kennedy’s granddaughter pays her respects at a British memorial to him   On Friday, Tatiana Schlossberg, accompanied by the American ambassador to Britain, Matthew Barzun, paid tribute to President Kennedy on the fiftieth anniversary of...

Kennedy’s Cabelled

New e-book on Kennedy’s assassination   On Tuesday night, I attended an event at the longest established antiquarian booksellers in the world, Sotheran’s of Sackville Street, to mark the launch of two books by Craig...

Syking up UKIP

Paul Sykes pledges “whatever it takes” to help UKIP win   In a move reminiscent of Sir Jimmy Goldsmith founding the Referendum Party, one of Britain’s richest men, Paul Sykes, has pledged to do “whatever it...

The sycophantic nature of social media

Irene Ramsay explores the world of social media   I’ve always been a Facebook fan, but have never really got to grips with the rest of the social media options out there. Admittedly Facebook makes me...