For all the nonsense about talks and engagement with Iran, nothing has changed and if anything, the Islamic Republic is upping the ante. The Iranians are still barring UN inspectors from their nuclear sites in spite of three days of talks with Western diplomats The reaction of the West , of course, is to wait to see what happens at more talks scheduled later in the month - the same pattern the Ira...

Argentinian President Cristina Kirchner condemns PM David Cameron for accusing her government of "colonialism" in the Falklands.

Gosh, isn’t this interesting? Vodafone has won a landmark tax dispute in India over its $11bn acquisition of a 67pc stake in Hutchison Whampoa’s Indian mobile unit, which later became Vodafone Essar. Another Private Eye/Ritchie nonsense ground into the dust. The Indian Supreme Court ruled that the taxman had no jurisdiction over the British mobile

The Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has said Beijing tax authorities are reviewing their ruling that he pay a multimillion dollar penalty for alleged tax evasion. Absolute nonsense. The taxman is perfect, knows exactly how much we should pay and we should just hand over whatever is demanded. Remember, these are dedicated public servants, without error,

The trouble with these free thinkers is that their ideas are nonsense or impractical, says George Walden.

Here we go again:PUBLIC money should be used to subsidise more direct flights from Scotland to China, Russia, India and BrazilNow I'm a fan of aviation having been brought up at Prestwick, but this is ridiculous. Just the sort of nonsense one would expect from the Labour party.But read on:Both Labour and the Conservatives yesterday urged SNP ministers to set up a dedicated pot of cash to tempt

Being aglass-half-full sort of person when it comes to the state of the Labour Party ( thought I should respond to theglass-half-empty blog post by Anthony Painter ( up by Peter Watt ( Anthonysays the Party has “stopped pretending it’s in trouble when clearly it is”.This is clearly nonsense, everyone I know in the Labour Party spends theirentire time full of angst about why we lost and what ...

French policymakers were angered last week when Standard and Poor’s, a ratings agency, threatened to downgrade eurozone nations — including France — if leaders did not act urgently to address the single currency crisis. But in an interview with Le Télégramme, a French regional newspaper, Mr Noyer said the downgrade did not appear “justified in

"All corporate taxes fall on households in the end. Companies might be convenient places to get cash from but they are not the people actually carrying the economic burden. It is some combination of shareholders, workers and consumers that are carrying the burden: those getting the social services which they are unable to fund." Tim Worstall, dealing with yet another piece of nonsense from that ov...

Londoners should stay in the capital during the games, says Boris Johnson, attacking claims of transport chaos as ‘nonsense’