Hitchcock

I now realise that life begins at 59

Colombia Notebook: it's nonsense to suggest that you should slow down when you reach your threescore years

Stop attacking 'target culture'

Yes, league tables and testing can be crude. But their dismissal is deeply self-interested

Good job we're not racist, like in the past

A story of black and white; plus why I can't get inspired by the Olympics

A new PM needs a new mandate

It's acceptable for the unions to help choose a leader for the Labour Party, not for the country

Why are Italian tourists so rude?

We cannot reconcile these brand-addicted airheads with their cultured forebears

Labour is lucky. They can ditch him

Ditching Brown could be the difference between honorable defeat and wipeout at the next election

They don't tell us. Any other questions?

Modern cynicism towards broadcasting is such that programmes that are spontaneous get no credit

Press releases signifying nothing

Government is drowning. Ministers flail around in an alphabet soup of piddling little initiatives

Pray silence for a special trailer

Notebook: politics is in danger of vanishing up its own grid