Have just come across 'Catch 21', a politics site run by Hull University students. Their main focus are the videos they post featuring a range of politicos and scenarios, but their blog is a thought-provoking one. Check out the most recent articles, on the American PACs that are busy buying electoral victories for their sponsors, and the threat from French far-right leader Marine Le Pen in our fav...

Nick Clegg will be the main guest on tomorrow’s Andrew Marr Show, in the third of Marr’s major party leader New Year’s interviews. You can watch the show 9am tomorrow on BBC1 or live online at the BBC website. Or catch it afterwards on BBC iPlayer.

And this incident took place in the Ukraine and not in Queens, New York! The Molotov cocktail attack in the Ukraine was perpetrated against Jews (the Kremenchug Synagogue for the second time in as many months) while the crimes in Queens were intended for Muslims. But a more telling cultural difference is that a full-court press was put-on to catch the Queens haters with an arrest being made very q...

The number of patients who contracted life-threatening infections in NHS hospitals has almost doubled in two years to a record level, official figures have shown.

The Caledonian sleeper services are a Scottish institution, a symbol of the comfort and style which was once the hallmark of the railways. They are invaluable for connecting the more remote parts of the Highlands to the UK Capital, allowing Scottish people to reach morning meetings in England and Londoners to catch the Deerstalker Express straight to the

Most of the measures in the Welfare Reform Bill are extremely sensible. Designed to streamline a byzantine system where fraud was far too easy and anomalies like benefit recipients living in million pound mansions too common (though not as common as the Daily Mail would have you believe!). During the passage of the Bill, the

The BBC has announced plans to scrap party political broadcasts on Budget day, telling viewers they can catch up on the Chancellor's statement online instead.

Government Motor's flagship product, the vastly underselling Volt has some additional problems to contend with. Its lithium-ion battery system has shown a disturbing tendency to catch on fire in test crashes, even crashes at relatively slow velocity. Even worse,evidence has been discovered indicating that both Government Motors and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration delayed di...

Former defence secretary, who says he wants to return to front-line politics, is still in touch with friend and adviser.

Here is what London's Metropolitan Police say about stop and search: Being stopped does not mean you are under arrest or have done something wrong. In some cases, people are stopped as part of a wide-ranging effort to catch criminals in a targeted public place. A police officer, or a community support officer must have a good reason for stopping or searching you and they are required to tell ...