THE SMALL THINGS

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I forgot the most vital thing. Today is SARAH'S BIRTHDAY. So, my lovely co-conspirator, if you should by any...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I keep thinking: I must do a really big, meaty political blog. Thoughts race around in my head like bumper cars....

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Are you on the edge of your seat for the first ever leaders' debate? I know. I'm not either. I hold a fo...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I know I should embark on a disquisition about The Big Society, but I don't quite have the heart. I was so e...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Read Sarah's latest piece from The Times here . And a little illustrative spring food collage to go with...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. This is quite funny. Alex Massie , with whom I do not always agree, has a naughty take on Labour's central...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I have always been searingly envious of those clever bloggers who do glorious collages of photographs, often on ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I was planning to give you a rest from politics for today. I know it is the thrilling launch of the Conservati...

Posted by  Tania Kindersley. Here is what no one has mentioned. I had to go and look it up. The British national debt is £780 billion. Let...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It's nuts, really, running a race over four and half miles and thirty enormous fences. The only nuttier race...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Too exhausted after the excitement of the Grand National to give you a proper post today, for which I do sincer...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. There I was, doing my work, pondering some good meaty political thoughts to put up on the blog, generally carry...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. And, for today's final treat, click here for Sarah's latest piece in The Times. She interviews Ka...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I don't often put up videos on the blog because I think they look a bit clunky and ugly, but this one is j...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. It has become fashionable to trot out the trope: personality does not matter, let's get to the substance . ...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. I do apologise in advance to my international readers (how I love writing those two words) and those ordinary de...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. At last, the election has been called. For a political geek like me, this is Christmas and Easter rolled into o...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Another huge family lunch. This time there were fifteen people, including the smalls. I cooked sausages in oni...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Cooked lunch at my sister's house for eighteen relations, from four months to seventy-something years old. T...

Posted by Tania Kindersley. Today is the goodest of Good Fridays. Practically my entire family is here, all the babies looking particularly ...