A beach book it isn’t. In my view, the best read of the summer is not wrapped around by a pastel drawing of Adirondack chairs bathed in sunlight.

Now and again you get someone who is clean, punctual, polite, energetic, and a good listener

Clichés have the spurious benefit of bonding; they are part of the ritual dance of ‘Us’ versus ‘Them’ but none of us should have the bandwidth for corporate clichés

Former RTÉ presenter needs to learn that constantly talking in public about the payments debacle is not serving him well

Collins’s exemplary control of her own health and self-sufficiency could not be in greater contrast with the luxurious imprisonment of Wallis Simpson

The former Scottish first minister says she has been deceived by Peter Murrell's embezzling of £400,000 from the SNP. She may also be hard-pressed to explain what she saw in this criminal vulgarian.

For Kevin Bakhurst, the Derek Mooney affair is very small potatoes indeed compared to the major on-air cock-up during his tenure at the BBC

The definitive personification of successful shutting up is Enya, who never talks to anybody, never posts anything, and never goes on chat shows

Starmer may announce a listening exercise to put Labour back in touch with its voters; that’s what political parties do after a catastrophic poll result: promise to listen in a new way

If they ask you to complete a task, and you don’t know how to do it, have the cop-on to ask someone else in the department for guidance