Can you all just calm down and stop yelling?

	Good on the Queen for telling Berlusconi to PIPE DOWN!
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Frederick Forsyth

So far the Miliband-­v-Miliband contest for the Labour leadership has had all the riveting appeal of watching a plank warp.

John Dillon

THIS time 12 months ago Fabio Capello could have been asked the question famously put to George Best at the height of his fame. And given a suitably swaggering answer.

Virginia Blackburn

WHAT does our society have against men? Not the upper echelons of it, which are as male dominated as ever but the man in the street, or in this case, the boy in the school. A new report has come out suggesting that young boys have an even tougher time educationally than we already thought because female teachers are disciplining them for typically male behaviour. This includes behaving in a “silly” way and indulging in “schoolboy pranks” – reprehensible in teenagers perhaps but we’re talking about boys below the age of eight.

Leo McKinstry

POLITICAL memoirs are notoriously dull. too often they are just exercises in vanity or historical duty, revealing little about the the innermost thoughts of their authors. Nigel lawson’s vast doorstop of an autobiography, for instance, touched on almost nothing outside the arid details of his work as Mrs thatcher’s chancellor in the 1980s, while the book by clement attlee, the post-war labour Prime Minis- ter, could have hardly been more devoid of colour. “This is not so much the picture of a life as a greatly expanded entry in Who’s Who,” wrote one critic.

Patrick O'Flynn

IT WAS the spider on the bathroom wall the other day that brought it home: autumn is at our gate.