Chances are it will come to nothing, but it has intrigued me think this morning that if reports of Putin being very unwell were true and ...

One definitely shouldn't laugh, but the unfolding tale of the London jihadi brides is a severe test of the straight face and sober count...

So some years after the Uk and US did QE, the Eurozone has tried the same. And to no ones surprise it has had the same effect. Alo...

" Given his penchant for political theatre, Osborne might offer something completely fresh, in a final bid to frame the political deb...

A nice, refreshing attack on the Tories by Ed Balls will be made today. Lacking in an detail, he instead claims that the future Tory Gover...

" Don't mistake my decency for weakness " - Ed Miliband " Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man "...

Idly tuning into BBC2 yesterday I encountered of programme on the history of lighting, in which our hero recounts ( inter alia ) the story o...

It turns out that ISIL, the latest and most exciting of states to join the comity of nations, really is a bit uncouth after all.  In an ine...

Struggling to understand the rise and rise of a defeated SNP ?  Emerging from the ruins of the Independence campaign that saw their charism...

David Dimbleby presents topical debate from Glasgow. The panel includes Liberal Democrat chief secretary to the treasury Danny Alexander...

I haven't forgotten my intention to have a crack at the sinister putative EU Energy Union initiative: but in the meantime, here's a...

You can often read some great stuff in the Guardian Newspaper - on a know thy enemy basis I must read articles a few times a week from the s...

The Royal Family are just brilliant for diplomacy and soft-power exercises generally.   The "Windsor"  brand catalogue offers such...

The news that the Tidal Lagoon Power have got Ed Davey, Environment Secretary for two more months, excited about plans that have been arou...

The blockbuster Energy Union Package hatched this week by the new Commission has been a while in the creation, signalled by Master Mandelso...

Nick Drew used the term Rolling Barrage to describe the latest political moves. Its a quality metaphor. Politics is only the conti...

Question Time quiz. Again..I am out. But may be back in time for the watching. So hopefully scores this time. David Dimbleby pre...

One of my perennial themes here has been:  governments have their hands on the biggest levers  a government strategist with a bit of crea...

It's been a while since GKP left the AIM stock market for the main market. Sadly for the company thought, which had a fantastic run in...

What colourful times we live in, eh?  A single day's headlines include: Russians limbering up for the expected assault on Mariupol   ...