The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today. The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. Th...

A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years - Lysander Spooner...

For those interested in the seamanship aspects of the Costa Concordia disaster, this may be interesting: Reconstruction of the Costa Concordia Tragedy, Narration by John Konrad from gCaptain.com on Vimeo. Narration by John Konrad, CEO gCaptain.com and USCG Licensed Master Mariner Unlimited.

Is we all supposed to be equal or not? Like most gender differences in outcomes, there only ever seems to be concern when women are under-represented in fields like politics, and never any concern when men are under-represented for outcomes like bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctor’s degrees, graduate school enrollment, biology degrees, veterinary degrees, optometry

The autobiography of the fictional broadcaster and all-round master of naff is undoubtedly funny, but, like creator Steve Coogan’s recent pronouncements, it is fuelled by large doses of liberal snobbery.

The National’s blockbuster show of the Renaissance master’s paintings is a great tribute to human genius and creativity.

As if Russia wasn't in a bad enough state, it's next president (the election's just a formality) is now trying out in that most pain-inducing of professions - dentistry. Having done his underwater archaeology stunt and found - surprise surprise - an immensely valuable vase that had lain undisturbed for thousands of years, the great master of all things is now clearly determined to intimidate those...

Toby Perkins MP, Labour’s Shadow Minister for Small Business, commenting on the Federation of Master Builders’ survey which reveals that 38% of FMB members had been refused credit by a bank that had previously considered them trustworthy, said:

Bastiat’s essence, therefore, was not that he wrote clearly, for audiences of non-economists, about economics.  It was not that he used humor frequently and effectively.  It was not that he was a master stylist.  No.  Bastiat’s distinguishing feature was his tireless effort to defend the case for free markets and free trade from the many

Like a bad rash, after the death of Philip Gould, the pollster and NL apparatchik, the leading lights of Blairism were all over the MSM. The Guardian published a five column obituary by Lance Price, and Alastair Campbell was given a whole page to blather on about the outpouring of warmth and love for the late unlamented Mr Gould. According to Campbell, a past master at writing up imaginings, as we...