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A member of the Lyons family wanted to have accurate up to date accounts for the 250 tea shops covered and devised a computing system which a department of Cambridge University was paid to develop. The resulting system was called LEO which stands for Lyons Electronic Office. I presume that this would have been immediately after WWII.

Nearly thirty years ago a junior RAF officer crawled up to some lady sitting on a bench at Ascot and using a camera attached to a pole was able to photograph the covered parts of the lady. For this he was found guilty of a crime. But this seems to me to have been a miscarriage of justice in that if the lady in question was wearing nickers no intrusion could have occurred and if she was not our gallant young man would have identified a gross breach of the laws relating to publ

Kick off is at 5.00 p.m. London time at Budapest. Take Paris St Germain to win at 90 minutes. 6/4 against will do.

His school report was brief and read: Rarely Seen Written by Simon Cawkwell, May 2026

There is no escaping this subject. When BBC Radio2's Vernon Kay and his wife of twenty-three years, Tess Daly, announced that they were splitting I was astonished. Although I base my judgment of Tess's position in legmanship contestants on a photo of her collecting an MBE at Buckingham Palace a few weeks ago I could have reverted to her sweeping pins revealed in Strictly Come Dancing. Anyway, it's done now and more's the pity.

Dominic died about four weeks ago. He could be good fun. For instance when working at the Daily Express he ran a story on a lady who had consorted with a cabinet minister. Dominic knew her and offered the headline story "She gave a great toe job". Which she might have. Not long afterwards he popped up at The Sunday Times and asked me whether Polly Peck could include a story which centred on the claim that Asil Nadir could include a racehorse in debtors. I assured Dominic that

As it happens I am a member of Reform UK and have paid the annual sub of £25. But I do wonder whether this position is strictly wise A few months ago Nigel Farage declared that e would save £234.9bn in HMG expenditure but he did not say how or where or when and knocking off £100m to make the promise look scientifically respectable is just tosh. And tonight Nigel Farage wants and will introduce favourable taxation of overtime earnings. This should be great for the earnest pru