I got home this afternoon to find the post-box stuffed with a leaflet from the Electoral Commission, explaining the EU Referendum and how I can cast my vote.

If the measure of a successful presentation is to make your audience feel as though you are talking directly to them or about them, then Charlotte Graham-Cumming hit the jackpot with hers last Friday.

Excuse my French but, oh bloody hell.

You couldn't make this stuff up.

What goes around comes around. We talk a lot about economics being a cycle, of recessions coming every seven to 10 years and sometimes things happen that drive that thought home. So it is with the news that Forterra (ex Hanson Building Products) is to mothball two of the brick factories it re-opened only a…

Woah. Talk about the morning of the long knives. Ken Clarke described Teresa May as a "bloody difficult woman" - something I'm not entirely sure wasn't a compliment - and the events of July 14 AM showed that she's not going to sort stuff out over a cup of tea and a slice of lemon…

It being August, Britain, and the school summer holidays, naturally I'm looking out of my window at a grey, wet, dreary morning.

Well. That's a bit of a turn up. One teeny tiny little set of islands. 5th in the world in term of GDP, admittedly, 21st in terms of population and second in the medal table at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.

In 1939, they call it the "phoney war." The months which followed King George's famous radio announcement September 1939 in that "as of now, this country is at war with Germany". Everyone was expecting the worst and it didn't come. Until it arrived with a vengeance when the Germans attacked France, Belgium and Holland in…

It's all gone a bit odd out there. I'm all for a bit of nice Indian Summer weather at the beginning of September to make us feel as though the long, dark nights of winter are still some way ahead. But 34deg during the second week of September feels faintly ridiculous somehow.