Coulter struggles with classes

By Calvin Palmer
Writers are often told to write about what they know.  In the case of Ann Coulter, it appears she knows very little other than her far-right views.  Her polemic attacks, often vitriolic in nature, resemble propaganda more than they do reasoned and researched argument or comment.
 
When she steps outside the light shining from [...]

Cocaine, date rape and Helen Mirren

By Calvin Palmer
The revelations by film stars and other celebrities often make me wonder whether they inhabit the same planet as the rest of us mere mortals.  The golden rule these days is to throw sex and drugs, even better sexual abuse, into an interview and the media will seize upon it like a pack [...]

Millionaire killed wife and daughter

By Calvin Palmer
Forget the professional hit-man hired to carry out a contract.  Forget a vicious gang of criminals targeting the homes of the wealthy.  The arson and murder at the Shropshire home of millionaire businessman Christopher Foster was an inside job.
 
CCTV footage recovered from the ₤1.2 million country mansion, Osbaston House near Oswestry, shows Foster [...]