Al Arabiya has reported that Iran's Revolutionary Guard has now deployed 15,000 armed troops to Syria recently in order to help Syria's Bashar Assad against rebel forces. This corroborates a communication I had had from a source of mine on the ground that Assad has had a decent amount of defections from his army, almost entirely among Sunni troops.Hezbollah has also sent trained troops t...

R is a programming language for statistical analysis and visualisation that I'm taking an interest in for a work project. It's another open source tool that makes us richer. One way it does that is by being used by Steve McIntyre to plot climate data and replicate (or not) the hockey team's research. While researching R, I found R-bloggers, and in particular a post about the use of ...

Someone really should have a word with Dave about Nadine Dorries. The sort of word that you’d have with someone that had their shirt poking out through their trouser zip… (source, source) (h/t @dlandoncole, screenshot by @unslugged) There is so much in that tweet that says so much about Dorries, that it is a little

Andrew Lansley has David Cameron's "full support", despite a Downing Street source reportedly saying the health secretary "should be taken out and shot".

Andy Burnham MP, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said in response to the Downing Street suggestion in today’s Times newspaper that 'Andrew Lansley should be taken out and shot': “David Cameron must make an urgent statement and clarify whether these remarks come from a rogue source, or reflect his own and majority opinion in 10 Downing Street.

Andrew Lansley should be grateful for small mercies. Rachel Sylvester's column (£) today may quote a Downing Street source to the effect that ‘Lansley should be taken out and shot’, but there is yet no sign that a hundred Conservative MPs will write to the Prime Minister to say that the Health Secretary's reforms have to stop. We've had such a letter for wind farms ...

If leaks to Dr Eoin Clarke’s website prove correct, That’s really not a source I would use myself. Trust me on this one.

This Saturday morning humor centered around the Obama administration will make you laugh, then cry, then extremely mad and then incredibly refocused on the 2012 presidential election! Cartoons courtesy of Theo Spark Top picture source “Like” TPC on Facebook here. Follow TPC on Twitter here.

The head of the Student Loans Company will have tax and National Insurance payments deducted from his £182,000 pay package in future, ministers say.

As the kids like to say I LOL'd at this one! The wife told me to go to the doctors and get some of those tablets
that “help” get an erection...
 You should have seen her face when I came back and tossed her some diet pills !
I am still looking for a place to live.
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