WHILE we can never become complacent about the threat of terrorism, our responses to it must always balance the likelihood of an attack against preventative costs.

196 Photos Taken By Two Members Of The SS Although not specifically a story about homeland security in New York, on some level perhaps it is! In a time when some world leaders would like to deny that the holocaust ever happened, The Auschwitz Album  chronicles the horrors that occurred at Auschwitz-Birkenau. The album was donated to Yad Vashem, founded in 1953 to be t...

I’m aghast. I never imagined that even Griffin and Brons would fall at the first, and eminently negotiable, jump. The Telegraph reports that Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons have given insufficient detail of their expenses, worth nearly £500,000. All other parties provided detailed returns. Griffin stood on an anti-sleaze ticket last June, and successfully exploited the widespread contempt...

Most of us would believe that having an economy with the pound worth 10% more at a cost of 4 million unemployment is nothing to lobby for. Sadly, for some, this will never be obvious: they would benefit financially from the economy going down the tubes, and think that right is on their side.

Mr & Mrs Keen, also known as Mr & Mrs Expenses, are getting away with repaying a mere £1,500. MPs have come up with the excuse that officials condoned their thieving. Of course it never occurred to Mr and Mrs Pig that their claims might be against the letter and spirit of the rules. Perish the thought that a minister should have the brain or imagination to consider such a pos...

I've never been on a demonstration - unless the million strong march in support of foxhunting, which took place in the run up to the passing of the Hunting with Dogs Act counts. As I recall, that was just a gentle stroll through the streets of London. But I was thinking of carrying my first placard tomorrow morning - but eventually decided against it. Let me explain. Background to this is the...

David Cameron warns the nation to “get ready” for Samantha, who will be interviewed by Sir Trevor Macdonald on Sunday. If Sarah Brown is the damsel in distress, saved by her heroic husband, Sam Cam is the trouser-wearing uber-bitch. Allegedly, she is terrifying: cowering Smythsons’ interns refer to her as Anna Wintour. She never does hyperbole. She will extol her husband’s ...

Lurch, according to my dictionary, is an archaic or dialect intransitive verb, which means ‘to prowl or steal about suspiciously’. Seemingly its sole use in twenty-first century English is to provide Tories with an all-purpose pejorative designation for any identifiable outbreak of milquetoast social democracy inside the Labour Party. Labour, you see, never moves to the

If Gordon Brown needs your opinion, then he'll give it to you. Of all the modern politicians he is the one least likely to engage in intelligent debate where ideas are developed, justified and defended by facts and ideas. Brown just makes assertions. Like: "It is right that" "It is wrong that" and today "It is incredibly unfair" What none of these statements never have following them is an at...

By now, it's become obvious that Nancy Pelosi is having trouble coming up with the votes in the House to pass the ObamaCare Senate bill. So what's their latest trick? To avoid a House vote altogether by cobbling together a parliamentary procedure to to deem the Senate bill ALREADY PASSED by the House by rule, even though it clearly never was: House Rules Chairwoman Louise Slaughter( d-NY...