It seems unfair that when the time comes for our beloved old dog, she will die peacefully at home, safe and surrounded by family. I’d quite like the same privilege for myself, without my kids being jailed for matricide.

"What began purely for economic reasons – the first category can’t afford to move out, and the second category have been bussed in to keep the wolf from tap-dancing down the garden path – has turned into something of a cultural exchange."

People have called the Teasock woman’s hastily assembled cabinet ‘diverse’ because there are differences of skin pigmentation and gender, but 68% of them are privately educated; there’s nothing diverse about wall-to-wall privilege.

Devotion to Her Late Majesty is now being calculated by how long you spent shuffling along the Thames; at the time of writing, David Beckham was in the lead.

My daughter delivers a fiery impromptu kitchen speech about the queen, slavery, colonialism, empire, commonwealth, and how the wealth is anything but common. I forward her links to Jedward.

I hate to be the one to break it to you but blackberries do not come from Tesco

The price of food is rising and pets everywhere are looking increasingly nervous

Why are Irish dogs engaged in some sort of dirty protest? Where are the fines?

A staunch pro-lifer, my dad and I were diametrically opposed on so many things but the love never wavered 

The censoring of transgender authors by right-wing extremists will not contain the ideas within