Retail expert Mary Portas is invited to Northern Ireland to advise on the content of an action plan to regenerate the country's town centres.

A couple of quick notes. First, episode 2 of Foreign Entanglements is up; this episode feature Matthew Duss of the Center for American Progress against Daveed Gartenstein-Ross of FPI: Not much maritime content, but certainly some national security talk. In the near future I hope that have a more maritime-themed episode. Second, my WPR column last week was yet another unhinged screed against airpow...

An article here argues that because Twitter has announced it will take down content it believes contravenes local laws, the company itself is not instrumental in that; it’s all the fault of the governments concerned. The thing is, the distinction...

PRESS STATEMENT Press TV 20th January 2012 OFCOM HAS REVOKED Press TV Limited’s Television Licensable Content Service licence. It means that the British public can no longer watch Press TV on BSkyB’s Sky platform. Press TV International has released the following statement: The British government’s media regulatory body, Ofcom, has banned Press TV’s broadcast in

The Cabinet is meeting about 5 miles away from Downing Street today, at the Olympic Park in Stratford. But its collective mind will be on a patch of land another 270 miles further on still. Yep, Scotland and Scottish independence are the matters at hand today. According to the Beeb, David Cameron and his ministers will discuss their ideas for the referendum, its content and its timing. It's t...

I don’t know whether to despise Diane Abbott just that little bit more or whether to pity her for her evident stupidity. Not content with insulting one fifth of the world’s population, she’s also said that taxi drivers are racist! A spokesman for the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association, Steve McNamara, said: We find it amazing

The exams regulator has said a GCSE paper is to be withdrawn, following newspaper allegations that examiners had revealed the content of future exams at seminars held for teachers.

It's a strange sort of Christmas present; interviews with Ed Miliband and Ed Balls — but that's what the papers have seen fit to deliver us this morning. There's not much political content in the Miliband one, which is more of an At Home With Ed and Justine sort of deal. But Ed Balls's interview with the Independent is a totally different matter. Here are five points dist...

So the Scots are doing deep fried butter now. Nutritionists said its estimated calorie content was 1,450 – enough to keep an adult alive in the Arctic for a week. Jesus fucking christ, can we not get a few of these arts graduates to understand some basic numbers? Not asking for any arithmetic or anything,

Today's sampler and analysis of Mideast media content from my pal Soccer Dad: 1) Whatever happened to Hamas? Maybe it's wishful thinking. In early October, The Christian Science Monitor reported: Of the many complaints in Gaza, one has become a popular refrain: the increasing taxes levied by Hamas. Fathi Abu Gamar, a gas station owner in Jabaliya refugee camp, readily joins the chorus: T...