Farm workers’ terms and conditions currently come under the purview of the Agricultural Wages Board. Photograph: Peter Titmuss/Alamy The government’s decision to abolish the Agricultural Wages Board (AWB) has been presented by the secretary of state in charge, Caroline Spelman, as a simple matter of clearing up unnecessary duplication of arms’ length bodies under the [...]

David Cameron was pictured on the front page of the Hindustan Times playing cricket. Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA Wire “What? James Cameron is in India?” My friend, the editor of a popular New Delhi magazine, was terribly excited for about eight seconds until I broke it to him that our present visitor was not, in fact, [...]

Mohammad Aamer celebrates the wicket of Alastair Cook. He’s a little further away than the batsman. Cook isn’t some sort of Hagridesque half-giant. Photograph: Shaun Botterill/Getty Images 88th over: England 323-4 (Collingwood 76 Morgan 122) Morgan flicks two away to leg and then steers a single out square. He is making it all look very [...]