Mr Goodwin may have been an egregious example of bad bankingbut he was hardly alone in causing the credit crunch, writes Martin Dickson

You'll remember that far left Oakland mayor Democrat Jean Quan was noticeably tolerant and supportive of the #Occupy Oakland creeps the last time they erupted back in November.Their pestilential encampment was only dismantled by police after it became a major health hazard. Over the weekend, #Occupy Oakland repaid the city's tolerance by breaking into City Hall and did massive damage to ...

History suggests that any greater involvement for the private sector, contained in reform plans, would happen less quickly than imagined

The last time it was necessary to say no to sending good resources into a hopeless situation. It looks like George Osborne has learnt this lesson from the Euro. We have the Germans suddenly wanting to be all chummy with us so that we will sell out children into more debt to porvide more money to burn on the Euro bonfire. The time has come to say No and to keep repeating it. Let Nick Clegg tak...

Obama is planning to fiddle in Hawaii while the United States does a slow burn! Listen! The man works hard just like the rest of us (other than the millions of unemployed and underemployed in the country) and as the leader of the free world, doesn't he deserve a little R&R? Personally I can't even begin to imagine the daily stresses this President lives under. Simply getting up e...

Conservative students at Scotland's oldest university have apologised after members of their society burned an effigy of US President Barack Obama.

These are the protesters the liberals love to love What do you think about this promise for the #OWS sponsored November 17th civil disobedience in New York City from protester Nkrumah Tinsley: "You gonna see what a molotov cocktail can do to Macy's"? Where are the #OWS supporters from Washington and Hollywood disavowing this message and movement that has shown itself to be violent, criminal a...

The home secretary, Theresa May, has ordered Muslims Against Crusades, an Islamist group which is planning to disrupt Friday’s Armistice Day ceremonies, be banned from midnight. Sigh. Freedom of speech means that people are indeed allowed to burn poppies if they want to be idiot enough to do so. Freedom of association also means that

In 1973 during the Arab oil embargo the cry was heard, "Burn Jews, Not Oil!" This is but one example through history in which the Jews as a people have been singled out for various "reasons," suffering through persecution, relocation, discrimination and genocide. Certainly the Jews are not the only group of people who have been subject to gross mistreatment, but it has been a long-standing and con...

Abusive troublemakers who call British soldiers murderers or burn poppies on Remembrance Day could escape prosecution under moves to scrap "insulting behaviour" as a criminal offence.