Anything new the Labour Party claims they’d do if only they were in government now? It’s a great big lie. They had a booming economy* and absolute power for thirteen years**. So if they gave a flying fuck about it, they’d have done it. *Later revealed to be a debt-fuelled disaster that’ll probably take another thirteen years for the Libera-tory Coalition to repair and pay o...

The shadow chancellor has urged George Osborne to protect lower paid workers, in an effort to repair Labour’s relationship with trade unions

In an attempt to repair his Party’s battered poll ratings and diminished credibility following the veto and its aftermath, Nick Clegg has launched the concept of the ‘Open Society’ into the public domain. It mixes important ideas with a sense of a motherhood and apple pie shopping list. It’s hard to see how the Open

The killing of 24 Pakistan soldiers in a Nato air strike has outraged Pakistan and thrown relations with the US into a new tailspin

From the very beginning of the EU project, the ship was holed below the waterline by a massive democratic deficit. It was not beyond repair; and if the bureaucrats and politicians had repaired this design flaw, by putting in place the necessary checks, balances and democratic accountability, the whole project would not be about to hit the rocks. Instead they ploughed on ignoring all the warning si...

Ouch. The big news out of last night's debate is that Rick Perry may have crippled his campaign beyond repair. After saying there were three government departments he'd eliminate, he was only able to name two and froze for an agonizing 53 seconds when he tried to name a third one...ending with an embarrassed "Oops." OK, anyone can have a brain freeze, but the problem here is two-fold; fi...

Georgian billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili, who is quitting business to enter politics, says he will win next year's parliamentary election and is ready to repair ties with Russia that were damaged by the war in 2008.  More »

An international competition in London is being used to promote the benefits of practical knowhow from fridge repair to stone masonry

AN architect with 25 years' experience in conservation work took on the council after being served with a statutory repair notice - and cut the costs of the work from £300

THEY cost £280,000 and took most of the summer to fit - but already Holyrood's latest state-of-the-art equipment is in need of repair.