50 h. ago TOM UTLEY: If the Budget wrecks our retirement dream, perhaps Mrs U and I should use Angela's tax adviser

These are words I never thought I'd write, but I have a grain of sympathy for Angela Rayner in her current plight.

Economics

8 d. ago TOM UTLEY: Why I keep telling my son that marrying the lovely mother of his children will make him, her (and me) happier

You may well say it's absolutely no business of mine whether or not our grown-up third son and the mother of his two children should choose to get married.

Politics

2 w. ago TOM UTLEY: From the bliss of my own bed to a decent cuppa... why the best part of any holiday is the heart

Oh, how heartily I agree with the 52 per cent who say one of the best parts of going away on holiday is returning to the comforts of home. My only quibble is that it's the best part, bar none.

Politics

3 w. ago TOM UTLEY: I was once fiercely proud of being a Londoner born and bred. But as Sturgeon seeks greener pastures and after nine years of the Khan Terror, Mrs U and I are thinking the unthinkable...

Nicola Sturgeon, former First Minister of Scotland, who has spent her entire life fighting for Scottish independence and slagging off evil England, now says she's thinking of leaving her native land.

Events

3 w. ago I was a Hibs player when I held transfer talks with Hearts and would have said yes to the Jambos

The born and bred Hibee revealed he was willing to directly cross the Edinburgh divide

Sport

last month TOM UTLEY: As a lapsed Catholic, I'm in no position to lecture anyone about religion. But Kemi's reasons for rejecting God strike me as frankly preposterous

A few years ago I received a borderline-blasphemous birthday card, which I have to admit made me chuckle. I thought of that card when I heard Kemi Badenoch's explanation of why she had 'rejected God'.

Events