Ed Miliband is not naturally a eurospectic, but he certainly sounded like one during his appearance on ITV's Daybreak show earlier. ‘I'm very concerned about what David Cameron has done,’ he said in reference to the PM's equivocation over Europe yesterday. ‘He's sold us down the river.’ Whether this is Miliband committing towards the sort of eurosceptici...

Nick Clegg has been all over the airwaves this week, promoting one of the Liberal Democrats’ flagship policies: raising the income tax threshold to £10,000. This is something that everyone interested in social justice should naturally be inclined to support. If implemented in the forthcoming budget, it would reduce the burden on low- and middle-income

The 1965 cover of “Act Naturally”, which had been a country hit for Buck Owens in 1963, suggests that the Liverpool foursome could have made something of themselves if they had stuck to better material like this. (Ringo Starr recorded it again as a duet with Buck Owens in 1988, that is also quite good)

Christmas' main role among young Chinese is an excuse to go out and get drunk, which shows a fine grasp of the holiday spirit, especially since Spring Festival already has the family reunion slot. So naturally, the Sanlitun* fire department...

It seems superfluous to comment on the comic-opera absurdities of North Korea’s public life. Indeed the Internet film 007 v the man in Black (007大战黑衣人), by the Chinese director Hu Ge, released in 2007 bitterly satirises the bleak life and vainglorious pretentions of Kim Jong-Il’s regime; and has received a huge audience across Asia. Naturally, the

There's a great selection of writers named of the cover of our Christmas issue. But one name, however, may stand out: Adam Werritty, who has written an article giving his take on the scandal that brought down Liam Fox earlier this year. We thought CoffeeHousers might care to read the whole thing (naturally, before buying a copy of the issue here), so here it is: When you hire a morning suit f...

BREAKING NEWS November 03, 2011: “One of the largest sunspots in years is rotating over the sun's northeastern limb… Naturally, such a large sunspot has potential for strong flares. NOAA forecasters estimate a 50% chance of M-class solar flares during the next 24 hours. One such eruption has already occured: An M4-flare at 2200 UT on Nov. 2nd produced a bright flash of extreme UV...

“The boost to growth from more monetary easing and more deficit spending – naturally always transitory and the source of further misallocation of resources – will be ever more faint and short-lived. Instead of igniting a new false boom, a progressively larger share of the policy stimulus will simply evaporate in the service of maintaining the accumulated misallocation...

Wars and civil conflicts are twice as likely to occur during years affected by the El Niño climate-warming phenomenon, a study suggests. The naturally recurring weather system, which boosts temperatures and cuts rainfall over a broad swath of the globe every three to seven years, doubles the risk of civil wars across many countries in the tropics, shows a remarkable statistical analysis by ...

This afternoon’s parliamentary debate touched on the sociological issues that may have inspired the recent looting. Naturally, there are plenty of competing views on the subject, but I bring your attention to Harriet Sergeant’s, which she has expressed in the latest issue of the Spectator. Sergeant has conducted extensive investigations into the teenage gangs in London, acquaintin...