At a time when British cinema was making such Oscar winning films as Carry on up the Khyber and Confessions of a window cleaner, an Ame...

 "Some expect my speech to pave the way for a fundamental reform of the European architecture which will satisfy all kinds of allege...

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Newport in Wales . On the panel are Conservative defence minister Anna Soubry MP,{erm...UN...

It's hard not to feel some sympathy for our old friend Volodya.  Keen to be seen as a superpower.  Doesn't want to be just a muscle-...

Hmmm. For the uninitiated Bitcoin is a computer-code based currency, beloved of geeks and drug-runners in equal measure. By some standards ...

So who said this and about what? Well it was  Abdalla Salem El-Badri the Head of OPEC discussing the UK's oil reserves in October of l...

The Labour party at prayer are angry. Following on from Vincent Nichols, the ­Catholic leader in England and Wales, who complained of the...

Question Time being very secretive today. Website has this. David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from Swindon, with a panel inc...

It's familiar enough to see oil quoted in terms of the price per barrel of Brent oil.  Perhaps less well-known, the price of Brent - a d...

With an election coming up and a budget to plan for in a few weeks time, the Government is scratching around for candy to offer the masses...

One of the reasons this blog exists (aside from the opinionated proclivities of its scribes) is the lousy job the MSM business correspondent...

Something has been very wrong with the coalition from early on. It isn't very good. At lots of things. But it isn't very good at ...

  David Dimbleby presents the topical debate from Scunthorpe. With a panel including Home Office minister Damian Green MP, shadow emplo...

Channel 4 had an excellent scoop last night , a whistle-blower from the RBS 'Global Restructuring Group' who told how, in the wake o...

I do hope our regular commenter Timbo is not yet planing to spend Valentines day with his canoe. Struggling to work today on trains that...

As we identified when the Energy Bill - now Energy Act 2013 - was first published, it was drafted by Sir Humphrey to give Whitehall total co...

Two children run a race. They start in the same place, but one of the children has the inside lane, and as they circle the track, that ...

David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Gillingham in Kent.  On the panel are skills and enterprise minister Matthew Hancock '...

A week that started with the release of the EC's excellent Hinkley document went from strength to strength with Tim Yeo's deselecti...

Back in the early 2000's there was a really fun and rewarding game to be played by investing in the AIM stock exchange. Small com...