Blog: Time to get back to facts and figures in education
Blog: The past may be no place to live but we dismiss it at our peril.
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Blog: Younger models are not necessarily better
Blog: More people are declaring that 60 is the new 40 and 70 the new 50, if you get my drift, while the very old homily that you’re only as old as you feel is regularly trotted out.
Blog: Floods, disease and earthquakes - Happy New Year!
Blog: They've been described as being of biblical proportions. Australian floods sweeping 30ft deep through an area as big as France and Germany combined, are certainly beyond the comprehension of most of us and show once more how man and beast are totally at the mercy of the planet when it roars.
Blog: The cruelty of eBaying Christmas gifts
Less than a week ago most gifts weren't wrapped, some not even bought. By Christmas afternoon one woman was on e-Bay flogging candlesticks given that morning by her sister-in-law and boasting about it.
Blog: Porn? No, that's Christina Aguilera's new routine
We know the latest student protest won't be the last.
Attacking the royals will only harm the yobs
It was business as usual for the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall despite an attack by thugs (yes thugs) as they travelled to the Royal Variety Performance.
Blog: Kate should follow the Queen's example
Blog: If Kate Middleton is looking for top tips to help in her future life with Prince William, she should forget the flunkeys, the civil servants and Debrett’s best.
Blog: London hotels already booked up for Royal Wedding
Blog: So 24 hours after the date was announced, weeks before the invites go out and five months before the wedding takes place, I started what should have been a ten-minute job to book a hotel room in the Westminster area for the night of April 28 next year. Just in case, you understand, writes Royal Correspondent Shirley Tart.
Summer royal wedding predictions are proved wrong
So those of us who said an early summer wedding at St Paul’s were wrong on all counts, writes Shirley Tart. And I for one had not taken into account just how romantic this young prince could be.
Blog: Money rules in Wayne's world
Shirley Tart casts her eye over everyone's favourite footballer, Manchester United's Wayne Rooney.
Blog: If ever there's a story to celebrate, this was it
Blog: I’m furious! Unable to drag myself away from a television set through Tuesday night, with millions of others, I was witnessing the best news story in the world, a most remarkable event.
Blog: Ed Balls was right over Sharon Shoesmith
I rarely write the following: I agree with Ed Balls. But when he was Children's Minister in the last government and sacked social services boss Sharon Shoesmith, I backed him to the hilt writes Shirley Tart.