This is one of these articles where I’m actually going to be upfront and honest about what I believe, rather than hiding behind my left wing shock jock alter-ego. I have just finished watching the BBC docco “My Foetus”, which showed an abortion being carried out. It was certainly confronting, which I found surprising because although I am pro-choice it is not an issue I have ever been passionate about. In fact I’ve always felt a fair amount of sympathy for the pro-life case too. Perhaps pa...

“ It's all sweetness and lightness that you bring and a room full of people fall to your infinite charm but when darkness should quickly descend you go quietly, my miserable friend to the depths of despair you will crawl black and white boy ” The drummer out of my favourite band, Crowded House has committed suicide. The Crowdies were responsible for that hit “Don’t Dream It’s Over” and countless other gems. Deborah Conway described him as “an acute observer of life”, and she sugge...