Inevitably, Hospital Watch is largely an exercise in public relations. It can’t be a documentary in any ordinary sense, because it’s live, so they can’t film more than they need and cut out the redundant bits – as a result everything has a faint bloom of pre-arrangement to it. When the camera cuts to a [...]

From Wor Jackie Milburn through Malcolm Macdonald, aka Supermac, to Net King Cole, the wearer of Newcastle’s No 9 shirt has held a special place in Tyneside affections.Having scored 24 League goals for Rangers last season, Ferdinand should have few problems following suit, though he stressed that he was not “an out-and-out scorer”, but someone [...]

But the Namibian is on a roll after recording times of 10.07sec over 100m and 20.41 over 200m this season.. Ireland will play France in the World Cup quarter-final in Durban on Saturday and that is already quite sufficient to constitute a triumph. Mitchell, who has just recovered from a hamstring injury which kept him [...]

Sorenstam, the Australian Open champion, eagled the last for her 68 while Alison Nicholas erased two sixes with a run of three birdies in four holes from the 10th for her 71.. Johnson was certainly making the most of the conditions when she reached five-under following a birdie at the 12th hole. She completed her [...]

Well, it’s up to them, but I think the Conservative politicians involved should be very careful. If they make this a test of credibility – theirs against the judge’s – they will lose. For the underlying suspicion of the executive which provoked the inquiry back in 1992 is still as forcibly present today.. Whitehall has [...]

It is a volume of enormous value, not because it tells the full story of the great prime minister within its pages, but because Bunting confined himself to those matters about which virtually only he could write with undisputed conviction and authority.The heart of the book is a searching essay about the recent evolution of [...]