Our selection of the best men and women of 2014
Continuing our series, we chose five men and five women who’ve achieved remarkable things this year. Our selection of the best people of 2014 includes...
Merry Christmas from all at ‘The Steeple Times’
Christmas Day is finally upon us and we’d like to take this opportunity – since we’re not of the Tony Blair “happy holidays” school of thought –...
Photo montage showing when Members of Parliament bother to turn up is telling (even if it is fake)
Spotted by photographer John Stoddart on Facebook, our Picture of the Week illustrates the reason why few in...
Andrew Mitchell and Emily Thornberry are two unlikely bedfellows but their cases have a lot in common
This week, just as Emily Thornberry MP was branded a “snob” for tweeting a picture of the Rochester...
The people of Rochester have spoken; Cameron needs to respond and readjust
Rochester was Dickens’ favourite place. It is now UKIP’s too and having achieved the election of their second MP, a clear message has...
Sainsbury’s produces a short film telling the story of the Christmas truce of 1914
The nation rightly celebrated the Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red poppy installation at the Tower of London and now,...
‘Evening Standard’ hint that a reinvestigation into the death of Carole Kasir may be underway
We first featured Carole Kasir in June 2013. She and her husband ran the Elm Guest House in Wimbledon, London...
‘The Archers’ without the Archers won’t be ‘The Archers’
The BBC has lost its way; it’s plain and it’s as simple as that. Radio 4 is an institution and The Archers – which has been...
Richard Branson’s time is up
Sir Richard Branson is a man who loves himself more than he loves life itself. He is a man who cannot control his own pathetic ego. His project to take...
In the wake of Fiona Woolf’s resignation, Theresa May must either resign or be pushed
On the 8th September, we called upon Theresa May to resign in the wake of revelations of links between her second...
Matthew Steeples calls upon Fiona Woolf to resign (and to take Theresa May with her)
Theresa May unsurprisingly disgraced herself in appointing Baroness Butler-Sloss to head the inquiry into historic child abuse and she continues...
Accompanying an endorsement of ‘The Steeple Times’ by “the BBC’s favourite property expert” Henry Pryor, our readership grows to over 500,000 in one single day
Since our inception The Steeple Times has become known for...
As it is revealed that the review of the case of the disappearance of Madeleine McCann has cost in excess of £10 million, Matthew Steeples asks: “When will it end?”
When Scotland Yard announced that they’d...
Were Thursday’s by-elections really such groundbreaking results for UKIP?
In Clacton yesterday, the turnout was just 51% and at Heywood and Middleton it was a paltry 36%. Despite these figures being higher than the usual 30%...
Boris Johnson is right to urge Conservatives not to defect to UKIP and Chris Kelly MP ought to heed his advice
UKIP is a very tempting proposition: They speak for millions when they complain about...
Matthew Steeples suggests that Dave Lee Travis should have been jailed
In sentencing Dave Lee Travis to a suspended sentence of just three months suspended for two years, the wrong message has been sent to...
A club for people with more money than sense
Social networks were all the rage in the early 2000s and the social network for so-called “high net worths” was ASmallWorld. Though it prospered in its...
Matthew Steeples suggests that David Cameron needs to show his hand
Yesterday, David Cameron attended the wedding of his wife’s half-brother, Jake Astor. Unlike others, we have no problem with that but at a time...
Has Rupert Murdoch lost the plot?
Rupert Murdoch has done a lot of strange things lately: This octogenarian met with Nigel Farage last week, is allegedly going to have his papers back Scottish independence and...
Matthew Steeples suggests that David Cameron would do well to send Theresa May on her merry way
Those suggesting David Cameron will have to resign if Scotland votes ‘yes’ to independence are missing the point....
Britain’s Prime Minister needs to get a grip
Parliament is back in session and we’re now in September. The ‘Silly Season’ should be well and truly over but in fact we’re sinking into a quagmire...
Is Douglas Carswell MP an honourable man or just plain stupid?
Douglas Carswell was first elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament in 2005. This week, the Member for Clacton defected to the United Kingdom...
Matthew Steeples commends Mary Beard for her forgiving manner towards those who troll her on Twitter
Those of us who use Twitter have surely encountered online abuse. With nearly 25,000 followers across two accounts (@SteepleTimes...
Matthew Steeples urges readers to consider what good your donation will actually do before rushing to take the ‘Ice Bucket Challenge’
I am not going to prove popular with many in saying this but the...
Was it really that wrong that the BBC were tipped off about the search on Sir Cliff Richard’s home in advance?
In the last 24-hours, there has been an outcry of anger from left-wingers such...
An MP, Mark Simmonds, who complained he couldn’t live on the expenses available to him shouldn’t just stand down; he should examine his grasp on reality too
The Steeple Times has long shared the view...
BREAKING NEWS: Boris Johnson set to attempt to return to Westminster
It was inevitable but it is excellent news: Boris Johnson has decided to stand for Parliament again at next year’s elections.
The Mayor of London...
Paedophile Rolf Harris launches bid to overturn his conviction
Rolf Harris’ lawyers have lodged papers at the Court of Appeal as part of an attempt to overturn his recent conviction on 12 counts of indecent...
In the wake of the collapse of the Tulisa Contostavlos drugs trial, we examine the merits of investigative journalism
Tulisa Contostavlos declared she’d had a “rollercoaster of a week” after she was convicted of assault in...
Is it not wrong that paedophile Rolf Harris received special treatment as he began his prison sentence?
Rolf Harris is a convicted paedophile with a difference. Unlike others sentenced for 12 counts of indecent assault,...
Arrogant Oscar Pistorius shows his true character yet again
Revelations that Oscar Pistorius was both in a fight in a Johannesburg nightclub last weekend and that he returned to Twitter to share his bizarre religious...
‘Made in Chelsea’ tours and chain stores have taken the place of Led Zeppelin and Sloane Rangers on London’s Kings Road
The Kings Road was famous as the centre of counterculture in the 1960s and...
