What's an "oy vey" economic statistic? It's one that has you making a face like the "Home Alone kid!" While we know the US economy isn't in very great shape, that 2011 might not have been our greatest year and that there are challenges hiding around every corner, these 50 economic numbers from 2011 will still come as an unpleasant surprise. Is this what happens when the can just kee...

Paul Kenny, General Secretary of GMB, visited Swindon today, and had a private meeting with Carillion staff, who work at the Great Western Hostpital. GMB has about 150 members out of just over 200 Carillion staff, but the private contractor has refused to negotiate with GMB, hiding behind a recognition agreement with UNISON and UNITE, who

A Doncaster man in court on multiple charges of burglary has had his case adjourned for at least 18 months while the judge looks into claims he was acting on ‘credible evidence’ that the houses he burgled were hiding weapons of mass destruction. Paul Biggs, 32, has several prior convictions and is looking at a lengthy jail term if found guilty of the 4 counts of burglary. But his defen...

My review of David Lammy's interesting book, "Out of the Ashes", has appeared on the TRG's Egremont blog, and is reprinted below: The last time there were riots in Tottenham, the local MP’s response was to crow that the “police got a bloody good hiding”. He may have been chiming in with the views of many of his constituents, but in the aftermath of riots that encompassed the brutal murder of...

Whether the issues are terrorism, AGW, contagious diseases, the movies of Charlie Sheen (that was a joke), today's advocates of Big Government often look to the Transnational solution. Let's have one government! No more hiding places for bad people! As readers might recall, I have written a few times about tax havens and the importance of the freedom of people to migrate not just their p...

The National Transitional Council (NTC) in London has confirmed that David Cameron is dead, the Libyan Broadcasting Corporation (LBC) reports. John Rusbridger reporting for the Tripoli Observer says that NTC troops found Cameron hiding in a drainage ditch seven miles outside Chipping Norton, the scene of the Cameron loyalist’s last stand. It’s reported that a

Ian Parker-Joseph relays news of a strong electromagnetic sunstorm that could potentially have catastrophic effects on our interconnected, electricity-dependent Western societies.This would not be without precedent: in 1859, the strongest recorded solar storm, known as the "Carrington Event", caused telegraph systems to fail or be shut down. But the world then did not have electronics, and water a...

Baroness Royall, Labour’s Shadow Leader in the House of Lords, said following the Government’s decision to dilute proper parliamentary scrutiny of its Welfare Reform Bill:

Former Lib Dem leader Charles Kennedy says the party went the "extra mile" to check out donor Michael Brown, who was later convicted of fraud and is reported to be in hiding in the Caribbean.

ALEX Salmond has been accused of "hiding behind the Queen's robes" after his government said palace rules banned it from publishing more details of the controversi