I will simply let "The Doctor" speak for himself today. This has to be one of the most challenging quotes from him I have ever read: ". . . The secret of the early Christians, the early Protestants, Puritans and Methodists was that they were taught about the love of Christ, and they became filled wi...

As each hour passes it becomes clearer why Eric Daniels has been fighting so hard all week to cling on to his black horse....

The following celebrities were born on March 5: Kevin Connolly is 35 Marsha Warfield is 55 Craig and Charlie Reid are 47 John Frusciante is 39 Jake Lloyd is 20 Penn Jillette is 54 Eva Mendes is 34 Niki Taylor is 34 Teena Marie is 53...

When I was fourteen years old, I read a graphic novel called “Watchmen.” At this point, it had already been published for over a decade. I came late to the game purely because I was only two years old when it was published originally - but when I got to it, I was hooked. I’ve read ...

Who isn’t in love a little bit with Jimmy Fallon?  I’ve had my eye on him since Saturday Night Live, when he was the giggling boy who had that great sexual chemistry with Tina Fey. I mean, has the Weekend Update ever been that good?  (Well, maybe in the seventies, but you know what I m...

Gordon Brown suffered a double blow yesterday when government statisticians recalculated Britain's national debt at £1.5tn and the CBI accused the prime minister of lacking a coherent economic recovery strategy. As the prime minister warned in Rome that the world was being hit by an "economic hurri...

The government's rescue of some of Britain's biggest banks will push up the national debt by as much as £1.5 trillion, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced this morning. Alongside a grim assessment of the state of the public finances - which suggests Alistair Darling's borrowing forec...

As banking heavyweights like Royal Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group topple like dominos it is easy to forget Northern Rock the Newcastlebased middleweight with which the crisis began....

Lloyds could be forced to write off a further swath of loans made by HBOS to hundreds of companies, after figures showed many of the loans are worth only a fraction of their original value. The troubled bank has made huge loans to commercial property developers, hotel chains and leisure companies, a...

You'd think in these days of no good news about bankers that they'd at least be doing something to ensure good service for customers. But no. It seems that we're just a human commodity to milk for as much return as possible. At least that's my current experience with Lloyds TSB . I pay £12 a month ...