What an absolute treat. It is hard to imagine how a radio programme could ever be better. Bill Kenwright interviewed Priscilla Presley about her life with Elvis, and looked back at his career and music. Bill made the interesting point that following Elvis from Britain in the 1960s was difficult because he received very little radio

Flaws in the US anti-terror system exposed by the recent arrest in Amsterdam of two suspected terrorists flying from Chicago pushed MEPs from the two main parties in the European Parliament to ask for "better" rather than "more" security checks ahead of a crucial new round of negotiations between the EU and the US over Passenger Name Records (PNRs).

Blair writes that he repeatedly considered sacking Brown but decided he was better kept "inside and constrained".

Gordon Brown was a "maddening" figure but Tony Blair decided that he could not get rid of his chancellor as he was better inside and constrained than sacked from the Government.

Evan Harris, writing in the Guardian today, shares his blueprint for better RE teaching. He says that the evolution-creationism debate in schools should take place in RE lessons as well as science lessons: Secularists like me believe that RE is a valid subject for study in the curriculum but should be about what different religions

So, the Koch brothers fund various people because as rich men they spend their money trying to make the world a better place as they see it. It might not be a better world as you see it, that’s for sure, but they are spending their money as they think it will. The money comes from

OK,  so toll road may or may not be of value. So, how do we try and work out whether it is of value? In the spring of 2006 it attracted just under 60,000 drivers a day. By the start of this year, the figure had fallen to just over 40,000, marginally

The news broke at the weekend that NHS Direct is to be scrapped by the Coalition Government, and replaced with a new service – 111 – a move anticipated in July’s Health White Paper, in which it was promised to: Develop a coherent 24/7 urgent care service in every area of England that makes sense

David Cameron has dismissed the Labour leadership election as a "Star Trek convention" with policy wonks battling out to go where no spad has gone before. That caricature has some currency (see picture, left). But as he'll know, a deeper choice faces Labour. David Miliband may be the geekier one - playing Spock to Ed's Kirk. You can argue that Ed speaks better human, that ...

Bob Herbert: America is better than Glenn Beck. For all of his celebrity, Mr. Beck is an ignorant, divisive, pathetic figure. On the anniversary of the great 1963 March on Washington he will stand in the shadows of giants — Abraham Lincoln and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Glen Beck: Despite