I love movie posters, and I especially love movie posters that I have already seen in London, translated into someone else's language, for somewhere else. So, I love this: These are all over Paris just now, as are huge pictures of Kate Beckinsale (star of Underworld – Nouvelle Ere) and a smaller one of Gary Oldman in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy, known here as La Taupe (the mole). J...

Stand-off between IMF, Germany and Greek parties over second Greek bailout; Bundesbank President: Fiscal treaty ???not a huge success???

This really does amuse me: America’s largest breast cancer advocacy group has been forced to make a self-abasing retraction of its plan to cut funding for Planned Parenthood following a huge outcry against the decision. Yes, yes, I know the politics. If you’re against breast cancer then you’re in favour of all sorts of wimmins’

A financial report released today by Transport for London (TfL) has confirmed the organisation has amassed an operating surplus of £310 million over the last 9 months. In the report (Operational and Financial performance and investment programme reports – third quarter 2011/12) TfL predicts an annual operating surplus of £338 million by the end of the financial year. TfL's o...

Universities should be hit with the "nuclear" option of huge financial penalties for failing to recruit enough students from poor backgrounds, the Government's new fair access tsar has warned.

Huge spending on campaigns by action committees have transformed US politics

Southampton faces huge challenges as welfare changes hit poorest areas hardest, says Labour MP John Denham. The Government's welfare bill will have the biggest impact in the city's poorest communities says a new analysis by John Denham MP. Bevois, Bitterne, Redbridge, Woolston and Millbrook will see the largest number of residents have their benefits cut. Mr Denham highlighted the challe...

Downing Street refused to condemn huge bonuses for City workers saying that 'reward for good performance is not in itself a bad thing' and that it would not micro-manage the banks.

This is what happens in a society where 'huge mass migrations take place annually' is also a society where 'millions of people have got their first car'. China witnessed 547 deaths in road accidents during the week-long Spring Festival holiday...

The deputy prime ninister, Nick Clegg, has said he has sympathy with those who have criticised the huge bonus awarded to the chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland, Stephen Hester.