This 2 minute video is from a President Obama news conference where he is answering two questions off-the-cuff, not very well! There are no duplicates! Each um, uh and er is unique. On the 60th anniversary of the first episode of I Love Lucy, suffice it to say that this President has got some serious 'splainin to do to the American people about a variety of scandals. For now let's just f...

Bearing in mind it's very early days yet and anything can happen, here are a few of my impressions of last night's debate and the way the current race for the nomination is shaking out. I fully expected Rick Perry to be a target yesterday. He's the current front runner, he's come up fairly rapidly and Michele Bachmann in particular needed to try to slap him around in order to k...

In an off-the-cuff remark that shows Ed Balls's ability to irritate opponents and voters alike, David Cameron this year labelled the shadow chancellor as Labour's most annoying politician.

David Cameron has been accused of making a wide number of foreign policy gaffes, though these fall into different categories. I think there is often a plausible defence of (somewhat inconvenient) truth-telling, even if Cameron’s recent comments about Pakistan appeared off-the-cuff rather than a deliberate strategy of increased public pressure. Beyond that, Cameron seems (laudably)

Earlier today, m’learned colleague Sara Bedford penned a piece responding to David Cameron’s off-the-cuff policy-making on the issue of tenure in social housing. Her piece has taken unreasonably taken flak from our valued community of commenters for asking more questions than she answered. But housing is one of the thornier issues facing any government, and

Forging a new foreign policy has been one of the more audacious of the UK coalition's aims. But it surely cannot be done on the hoof or off the cuff, writes Geoffrey Wheatcroft

... Is a question that was vexing one Mr T Cuff. To which end, he fired off a letter to the Bank of England, making a Freedom of Information request to ascertain: ... where money comes from? Its original source?...

I'VE often wondered at which point does a man look at his cuffs, finger the pale plastic buttons and think to himself: "They're not enough – what's missing her

GORDON BROWN'S seemingly off-the-cuff remark in the Thursday party leaders' debate about boys squabbling in the bath was anything but.

Forget data sets, interquartile ranges and margin of error. The Guardian recently reported the collective wisdom of the wet-fingers-in-the-air of the UK’s pollsters, who met this past week “to refine their methods ahead of the election, and ended with off-the-cuff predictions for the final result.” And here’s what they came up with: Statisticians from most of Britain’...