Today, Karen and David ran a mile for Sport Relief and joined in the world record simultaneous Hula-Hoop attempt. Leeds Headrow was closed off for the occasion which was also happening elsewhere nationwide. I wasn’t overly keen on getting up early on a Sunday morning but once we parked up (near dark arches) and headed

Two things stand out from my entirely cursory skim of this new report (cursory because my word this really is getting boring having to point to the silliness of much of this research): PRIVATELY HELD, NON-RESIDENT DEPOSITS IN SECRECY JURISDICTIONS The first is this: Furthermore, we find that such deposits have been growing at a compound rate of

Britain's political parties are flinging mud at each other instead of getting down to the urgent task of engaging in a serious debate about what needs to be done to cut the deficit

Charli Carpenter at LGM has excerpted a report from the Monitoring Group on Somalia with some fascinating details on the piracy business model. As she says, it’s getting a little top heavy, with A and B shares, various investors and...

I think, after last year's stooshie, readers will know where I stand on All-Women Shortlists. I'm opposed to them, but one question that was posed to me (and I didn't answer at the time) was, what would I do? Well, you know that I don't like centrally-planned lists. I think they defeat the purpose of a Parliamentary system where an individual is elected to represent constituent...

Well, who would have thought it. The Shadow Secretary of State for Wales, Cheryl Gillan issuing a press release, taking the actual Secretary of State, Peter Hain to task for not getting on with the procedures necessary to deliver a referendum on law making powers for the National Assembly. We do know that Peter Hain is not that keen on holding a referendum. Mrs Gillan tells us that Mr Hain has wri...

If two things fuelled the rise of the BNP last year, then they were probably the mainstream parties' reluctance to talk about immigration and a general disillusionment with Westminster politicians in the wake of the expenses scandal.  There are tentative signs that the parties are getting their act together on the first.  And, now, Nick Griffin  may have undermined his own part...

From the easel of Beau Bo D'Or, this is a corker. Mr Paul Dorries' Jaguar is getting particularly ragged from all those moonlit flits, be they from farmyards, hamlets, apartments or railway terraces. Substantial his and hers Mercs for the hard-working Dorries Mum-P and House Husband would be muchly appreciated. Run arounds for staff would be lovely yes. Seems like bloody miles to the Bla...

Whisper it quietly, but there is a sense that the Tory campaign is getting back on track. The Tories have had three good days in a row, have Labour on the back foot over Unite and the polls appear to be moving in their favour. Certainly, Tory morale is better than at any point since the start of the year. One thing raising Tory spirits is Cameron’s own performance. As Iain Martin points out,...

Some of you are familiar with Rachel Corrie, one of the postergirls of the `anti-Zionist' Left. She was accidentally killed when getting in the way of an Israeli bulldozer involved in collapsing tunnels used to smuggle arms and explosives to Palestinian terrorists involved in murdering Israel's civilian population, and was part of the International Solidarity Movement,(ISM) which really,...