The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. The so-called Arab Spring is rapidly turning into an Arab winter. And as this week's winner, Joshuapundit's The New Egypt - Bankrupt And Sinking Fast writes, it's not likely to be a pleasant time in Pyr...

At least 20,000 people have been wrongly labelled as criminals or accused of more serious offences because of blunders by the police and the Criminal Records Bureau.

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. This week's winning essay, The Mellow Jihadi's Lance Corporal Donald Hogan, Marine Hero is a prime example of the Jihadi's unique literary style as he takes a stirring look at an American hero in and re...

This official history of NUPE from 1928 to 1993 (when it merged with COHSE and NALGO to form UNISON) deserves to be a standard reference book for those interested in the evolution of modern unions, particularly in the public services. It is comprehensively researched, although mainly from the written records, rather than tapping into the

Candidate releases two years of tax records hours after battering rival Newt Gingrich in his most aggressive debate performance

The Bank of England is under pressure over its refusal to conduct an internal review of its performance during the financial crisis

Interesting times, to say the least. President Obama's surrogates in the dinosaur media are wasting no time in attempting to clear the way for him the same way this president has always won elections - by using Alinskyite tactics to destroy opponents in advance. It worked with Jack Ryan, whose divorce records were mysteriously unsealed by Illinois Senate candidate Barack Obama's pals on ...

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. This week's winning essay, Joshuapundit's The Tale Of The Swine is a cautionary tale about...well I think you'll figure it out for yourselves. Here's a slice: Once there was a tribe of wild ...

Downhills Primary School in Haringey is fast becoming a political battleground. Before Christmas, David Lammy, the local MP, a bunch of union leaders, left-wing opponents of education reform and Labour councilors wrote to The Guardian complaining about Michael Gove’s plans to convert primary school with poor academic records into academies. In the New Year, Michael Gove responded with a spee...

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. Great ideas and eternal truths never die - or as the megilla written by Ecclesiastes put it so well long ago "There is nothing new under the sun" - because human nature never changes. This week's winning essay, T...