An old Army comrade, we'll call him Bob X, has died. Unflappable, popular, a great regimental officer and ten years my senior, he showe...

Spy Ring Exposed Members of the former Liberal Democratic Party admit to being Tories. The suspects arrested in Torbay now admit to being ri...

Grauniad , 30 June 2010: "Tony Blair was warned ... that an invasion of Iraq would be illegal the day before he privately assured Pre...

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David Dimbleby is joined in Ipswich by Iain Duncan Smith { Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and part rehabilitated failed Tory lea...

Osborne's Budget met the Machiavelli test pretty well: he's started on the nasty stuff at the earliest opportunity - though it would...

We had a think about Ocado a few weeks back , wondering what they were up to with the new warehouse, and why would anyone risk an investment...

Newsnight last night and an hilarious interview with Ed Balls. The Government are going to cut back the regional development agencies that ...

News comes out today from RBS about the real nature of debt problems facing Europe's banks. The FTSE is falling on the back of this as I...

Two stories from over the weekend may not make for great reading in the Investment Banks and London Stock Exchange today. Firstly there is...

Never been a Trot: but this sums up America for me. " It has never been easy for us Trotskyists to face, but it was America, dear, gold...

As BP's sun sinks slowly in the West, arch conspiracy-merchant Karl Denninger reckons that the $20 bn bought some kind of limitation on...

Political World Cup Harman - {Nigeria.} Just keep attacking even when seriously outclassed. Punched and dived until red carded . Fails to...

I said yesterday some crazed US courts will start saying BP's costs for the Oil crisis will be a trillion. Little did I expect to be pro...

David Dimbleby is joined in London by Vince Cable {lib /con business secretary and saint} , Ed Balls {shadow anti-immigration spokesperson a...

The BP share price is down to £3.30 today, another new low. This is the level that two weeks ago I thought would be a a good buy in point. ...

Well, having slept on the budget (not literally, Mrs Unslicker is always talking about 'boundaries'), some deep questions have occur...

There is a mass of detail to grapple with in Osborne's Budget - particularly in the area of welfare reform. Additionally, we will not k...

Vitaï Lamenta There’s a breathless hush, twas a close-fought fight No.10 gained in a famous win. A bumpy economy, money tight - Bad; but a...