Boris Johnson certainly hit the common sense button this week when he said that many unemployed Brits need to take a good look at the energy that many overseas workers, especially in London, put into their work - and learn from it.   Boris is no supporter of the immigrant worker invasion lessening the number opportunities for young and part time British jobless, but he is savvy enough to appr...

The UK is now politically isolated over Europe, the centre-right alliance that Cameron dreamed of is in tatters, and the long-term damage to our economy by being in the outer-rim of a two speed Europe will be significant. But all that is irrelevant for now. This leaves Ed Miliband with only one real option: to push the nuclear button.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holiday's and Felize Navidad as we enter the weeks before the gift giving begins! But for parents out there with young children who are looking for that perfect gift, if you are shopping at Toys "R" Us and think that you found it with the "You and Me Interactive Play & Giggle Triplet Dolls," make sure that you use the "try me" button first. It seems that some of...

So soon after taking on the right over the European Union, David Cameron didn't want to be seeing negative headlines on another of their hot-button issues. But that's just what he's woken up to this morning, thanks to the revelations that the Home Secretary authorised the relaxation of border checks. As James said, May's performance in the House of Commons yesterday left her lo...

Everyone fucks up. You do, I do. Everyone does sometime or other. We either say the wrong thing, misunderstand something or as happened tonight at several newspapers, press the wrong button. Amanda Knox won her appeal against her conviction for the murder of Meredith Kercher. Several papers, as the verdict was given, published their stories.

Boris Johnson, known as "Mr Crikey" in some parts of America, was at the home of Michael Bloomberg in 2009 when he ran into Katie Couric, the US news anchor.

"A pragmatist doesn't keep pressing the same garage door button when the garage door doesn't open. He gets out of the car and tries to identify what's wrong." Michael Barone. The veteran chronicler of US politics is not given to harsh language, but he's certainly not pulling his punches today....

That whole push-button, video game war thing that science fiction people got bored with a while back seems to have finally shown up. Even the agency’s analytic branch, which traditionally existed to provide insights to policymakers, has been enlisted in...

Iain Dale increasingly uses his blog as a vehicle to promote his LBC show or publishing ventures, but there are some occasional nuggets and his piece attacking the soundbite nature of radio interviews is pretty on the button.

Portugal becomes latest EU nation to suggest it is on the brink of a bail-out after Ireland confirmed it had begun preliminary debt talks and Greece disclosed its economic problems are worse than previously thought.