So, elect Gingrich and Moonbase Newt is go. There's an obvious, albeit obviously deranged, rationale for a man campaigning in Florida to support greater space related activity, that being the state from which all the rockets went up. Literally stratospheric...

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

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The country's most senior tax collector Dave Hartnett has been condemned by MPs for "scandalising" mistakes as pressure grew for him to resign immediately and it emerged he could walk away with a bonus and £1.7 million pension pot.

This one targeted a steel plant in in the city of Yazd, located southeast of Tehran and east of Isfahan. The Iranian's story was originally that some water had penetrated into the steel's melting pot but they later switched that to say that some ammunition brought to the factory had exploded. What ammunition would be doing at a steel plant is anybody's guess. Another point of intere...

So farewell then, Ken Russell, who always raised the tone. YouTube doesn’t have the bit out of the Devils where Louis XIII takes pot shots at Huguenots forced to dress as birds and run around squawking. Instead, this, which is...

The education secretary says there is no "hidden pot of gold" to improve the deal on the table for teachers preparing to strike over pensions.

The Republic of Ireland's National Asset Management Agency (Nama) releases just 20 million euro for development in Northern Ireland, out of a total 900 million euro pot.

Chris Leslie MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, said in response to David Cameron’s comments on the Jeremy Vine Show about the £500m bonus pot at RBS:

Some nerve, eh? Gam Atah, tembelim. Welcome to the Watcher's Council, a blogging group consisting of some of the most incisive blogs in the 'sphere, and the longest running group of its kind in existence. Every week, the members nominate two posts each, one written by themselves and one written by someone from outside the group for consideration by the whole Council.Then we vote on the b...