When a nation state is on its knees, it often is reduced to petty theft and abuse of law to try to raise revenues. Where possible, the best ...

The BBC promote Glastonbury like its their very own gifted child. A sea of adverts across their very wide broadcasting spectrum for the king...

So, farewell then Felix Dennis.  What a man .  I find that you chaps a decade (or, ahem , more) younger than me generally have no conception...

I'd like to try something. I'd like you to put into the comments just what the Glastonbury festival  means to you. What image do...

Well Mr Cameron. That didn't go well.  The collective EU don't appear to be listening.  Not a surprise. Whatever they say in p...

David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Wolverhampton, with Conservative defence minister Anna Soubry MP, Labour's former deputy ...

This Mark Carney character is not having a good time of it. Firstly his attempts at 'guidance' show that he knows no more on the f...

... she can wound with her eyes, She will ruin your faith with her casual lies ...  (B.Joel 1977) Yes, he met her too.  Oldest story...

Quantitative Easing, that was a good topic for a long time here and in the UK generally. The magic money tree come to save us from a deart...

For the first time ever the national side, the labour party, has failed to win any of their opening matches.  Under Ed Miliband’s lead...

But only the one, because oil really isn't doing very much.  $115 has been breached, but it looks like a bit of a resistance-level for n...

The other week I was watching the BBC World programme, the one that for better or worse dominates hotel-room TV listings all over the globe....

Tony Blair is being interviewed by Der Stürmer and is asked whether the original invasion was a terrible mistake. "Look..let's ...

Berkeley Group has come out with its annual results today and these are a very strong set indeed. Profits are up by 40%, more completions...

Search on Hague / Jolie / Images and you get this extraordinary photomontage, straight from the secret scrap-book the Foreign Secretary ke...

So Greenpeace have contrived to lose €3.8m in currency speculation !  To quote the great man, one must have a heart of stone to read it wi...

It is a very strange world we live in currently. With simultaneously 3 major crises' in the world and yet the majority of its people loo...

Vietnam war comparisons are going to be inevitable. When the victorious NVA arrived at the Palace they found the main gates locked so kno...

The passports thing is an amazing nonsense, and symptomatic of worse.  Let's start with the present furore.  Isn't Teresa May on ser...

David Dimbleby presents topical debate from King's Lynn. Panellists include Conservative work and pensions secretary Iain Duncan Smit...