Leonard Peltier is a Native American serving his thirty-sixth year in prison. The events that led to arrest and the falsification of evidence used to convict him have long been highlighted by award-winning films like Michael Apted’s ‘Incident at Oglala’ and best-selling books such as Peter Matthiessen’s ‘In the Spirit of Crazy Horse’. Leonard was wrongfully...

Analyzing the New York Giants - New England Patriots game has been done in virtually every possible way by nearly every available pundit! Are there any unique ways left? Handicapping a Super Bowl or a horse race! As a young man I was a somewhat frequent visitor to the horse track. As a frequent visitor, I would spend a great deal of time pouring over the Racing Form trying to pick the eventual rac...

Former Labour education secretary David Blunkett apologises after saying he did not believe children under 16 were taking courses in horse care at school.

The financial transaction tax that President Nicolas Sarkozy and Chancellor Angela Merkel have agreed upon is likely to backfire as more member states endorse the British condemnation of it, says Daren Ennis, director of  MHP Communications. More »

Alex Salmond has a soft spot for horse racing, and I've just seen some odds that could make the First Minister a very rich man: William Hill is offering 9/1 on Scotland being independent by the end of the decade. The SNP is traditionally bold in its predictions: ‘Free by '93’ being one of the more memorable. Salmond himself predicted that the Union of 1707 would not live to s...

There’s a bit of horse and cart here. France could be stripped of its triple-A credit rating before Christmas, raising new doubts about the survival of the euro, analysts have predicted. Well, OK. Analysts said that if France’s rating was slashed its borrowing costs would rise, making it more expensive for Paris to refinance its

By attempting to address the long-term problem before the immediate one, Germany has chosen a curiously back-to-front approach to the crisis. Ah, say the markets, but that’s how the Germans like it. They want the cart before the horse. Once the cart is in place, then they can start talking about the horse. That’s the

Wiltshire Industrial History: working class episodes was launched at the Swindon Steam Museum on Saturday 12th November 2011. Rosie MacGregor, the Chair of White Horse (Wiltshire) Trades Council, was interviewed by BBC Wiltshire Sound. Picture of Rosie MacGregor by Bob Naylor© Rosie’s BBC radio interview: BUY THE BOOK HERE:

The Arctic Fox still hasn't lost her touch. And you have to love the sting at the end: It’s tempting to get distracted with the horse race aspect of electoral politics during a primary season. But as pundits talk about “who’s up and who’s down” in the 24 hour news cycle, we must keep our eye on the ball with the Obama administration. They rely on distraction to s...

The Coalition’s legislation has a marvellously retro feel to it. Sniff the air. Through the whiff of horse dung and open sewers, you can tell we are back in the days of Queen Anne and not solely because the lawfulness of the catholicity of a Monarch’s spouse was an issue deemed worth revisiting. The Observer noted that a debate in the Lords on the Welfare Reform Bill gav...