UK Politics My virtue is tested by Mr Ginger Beard and a bottle of Coke from WHSmith on the train To London, to have lunch with the children and catch up with some old friends I haven’t seen for about a year. I travel to London… By Mark Watson
UK Politics For the first time in my life I have a sworn enemy – and I don’t even know her name By Mark Watson
Scrabble is like life: you’ve got to be innit to win it Not much doubt about the big news of the past couple of weeks: there are a dozen new words… By Mark Watson
Farewell, Whispering Ted, the man who taught me that less is more Unless you’re Osama Bin Laden, it hasn’t been a great time to die of late, if you wanted the… By Mark Watson
I didn’t do anything even vaguely funny for Comic Relief We all try to resist the cliché that, as a nation, we’re obsessed with failure but it’s hard to… By Mark Watson
For how much longer must all men be judged against Colin Firth? A lot of questions arise from The King’s Speech, the recent film in which – spoiler alert – a… By Mark Watson
Who needs books when we could be watching Cheryl Cole? TV has spoken; the printed word has had its day. By Mark Watson