'Listen to this: Britain has the lowest social mobility in the developed world,' David Cameron said in a speech five years after he became Prime Minister, which was about as encouraging as what May has said this week
Looking at Theresa May's record we can't expect much better from the next four years – whatever she says this week
It is what she does – or does not do – to Labour that will offer the best early guide to her potential. Were Cameron in her kitten heels with George Osborne advising him, you know what he would do
Let the kids make a splash in the garden this summer with the help of a fun inflatable
The motion of a train loosens the tongue opines Pozdnyshev, the local government bureaucrat who is our garrulous travelling companion for the hundred minutes of this horribly compelling monologue which the playwright Nancy Harris has based on Tolstoy's notorious, warped novella. Directed by John Terry and starring the mesmeric Greg Hicks, the show holes us up with this fastidious, elegant figure who proceeds – as if out of some purgatorially recurring need – to try to explain why he was driven to murder his wife.
There is an opening, now the EU issue is decided, if not to branch out, then to take stock and at do some tidying up
He will be remembered by history as the Prime Minister who took Britain out of the EU by mistake
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'While some women spoke about faking orgasm in positive ways, for instance, as a pleasurable experience that heightened their own arousal, many talked about feigning pleasure in the context of unwanted and unpleasurable sexual experiences'
Cameron's gang of W10 homeowners shared childcare and booked holidays together. But, unlike her predecessor, Theresa May knows what it's like to be excluded from a glittering circle
The new Prime Minister's economic plans appeared to have been plucked from the former Labour leader's pitch at the 2015 general election
The Europhobes are never satisfied, as David Cameron discovered to his cost. Toss them a bone and they demand a whole carcass
The Top Gear presenter/F1 commentator chats Evans, Clarkson, Hodgson and Johnson and why he's the last man you should ask to record you EastEnders
Finding out that someone is of a different political party can influence perceptions of how that person looks
Having satisfied neither side in her EU negotiations the blond bomber will make his second bid for Number 10, "putting nation first", "rescuing Brexit", quoting Churchill and all that
If Scotland voted for independence we would lose its tax base, putting our defences and overseas aid contributions at risk
In a military prison in Damascus, a 34-year old Muslim who wanted to be an Islamist fighter breaks down in tears as he tells us how he lied to his wife. Another man tells me his life is so framed by war that his biggest fear is peace
Votes are gushing to the political fringes because since the financial crash, establishment politicians have failed to come up with any meaningful solutions to the problems that ordinary working people face every single day
When Angela Eagle launched her campaign she made much of the fact that these are 'dark days for Labour'. What she failed to mention was that the party's membership is now at its highest point in decades, and is rising
