Britian’s lenders are reluctant converts to the new order; like St Augustine, they are prepared to be good – but not yet, writes Will Hutton

In 1997 New Labour was not just a domestic programme; it was a foreign policy too. Known as the "Neue Mitte" in Germany, Blair's Third Way soon attracted such converts as the German chancellor, the French prime minister and the Danish leader. In the end, it produced few results for Britain, failing – much as Harold Wilson did in the 1970s – to curry favour for the UK thr...

I was pleased to see the news this morning that Bjorn Lomborg’s views on climate change have shifted, particularly as his scepticism has often been rather thoughtful. In particularly, he opened up an important debating by pointing out that money spent on stopping global warming needs to be judged against not only global warming’s likelihood

By Paul Goodman MP. The story of Alhaji Umaru Abdulmutallab, and his wicked bomb plot, looks to be a reminder of a vital truth - namely, that Al Qaeda's operatives in the west are not Frantz Fanon's "wretched of the...

Yesterday was London Region’s autumn conference, during which I heard from two recent converts to Twitter. First, Keith House – leader of Eastleigh Council and probably the person with the best record of election results at both local and national level year in, year out in any council run by the Liberal Democrats.* Perhaps understandably given

Madonna was bad enough, but this is really beyond the pale. Former Liberian dictator Charles Taylor, currently imprisoned at the Hague awaiting trial for war crimes in Sierra Leone, has apparently decided to convert to Judaisim, one of his wives tells BBC radio (my transcript): Q. So he's now a practicing Jew? A. He's now a Jew. He's practicing Judaism.  Q. Tells us about that?...

Of course,as you can imagine, the suspects are all Evangelical Christians...okay, sarcasm off: The FBI busted a homegrown terror cell late Wednesday night as the men sneaked around a Jewish temple in Riverdale planting what they thought was packages of C-4 explosives, sources told the Daily News. The four African American men, three of whom were said to be jailhouse converts to Islam, also alleged...

Hattip to Kerron Cross: Is Size Important? for highlighting this. One of the problems of email, messageboards, Twitter, Facebook and the like is that URLs (or "website addresses") are often very long and get broken. So TinyURL.com was created to shrink the links. For example Kerron's post has this address: TinyURL converts it to: But is small always beautiful? HugeURL.com has been created to ...

I'd like to welcome Terry Hipsey, lately Tory leader of Thurrock Council, to the Labour Party. We welcome all converts, no matter how late. He's quit the party over tax: I cannot justify David Cameron's decision to make his number one priority in a recession a tax cut, which would give hundreds of thousands of pounds to millionaires, but do nothing for the vast majority of Thurrock families Last w...

Seems that the converts to Keynesianism are turning. From Auntie:"Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, has cautioned against further significant government spending to stimulate the economy. Given the high levels of UK debt as a result of recent stimulus packages, Mr King questioned the wisdom of increasing debt by spending more. "There is no doubt we are facing very large fiscal