In Bombay Beach, Alma Har’el uses artistic licence to tell the melancholy tale of an abandoned wannabe boomtown.

Today’s leaked NATO report on ‘the state of the Taliban’ has generated the predictable responses: excessive attempts by the media to hype it up, and excessive attempts by NATO and the Pakistani government to play it down. What is its true significance? It’s a good scoop, but there is little or nothing in it which really counts as ‘news’ to anyone who has been fo...

Preventing pregnancy is not a low-frequency, high cost event, This may be true of the recently married but not of all…..

              It was typical of Mr Miliband that he used a good phrase out of time and when it was not true. Mr Cameron used the veto , refusing a UK signature on the proposed new Treaty before Christmas, and then renewed the same veto this week. He has made it crystal clear that

Did I say funny? It's actually very sad! Very true but very sad! This video is in perfect sync with an article this morning that spoke about how, assuming that the Greece sovereign debt crisis is in some way resolved, there are other EU PIIGS waiting in line for debt restructuring as well. A country like Portugal comes to mind! H/T The Daily Bail Become a fan of The Political Commentator on F...

Stories abound on the fact that the UK supposedly has state debt of £1 trillion for the first time. This however is not true. Over the last few years the UK has issued debt as shown below totalling about £560 billion.

Sorry Nick, no, this isn’t true. That treasure trove is the $3.1tn of tax, equivalent to 5.1% of global GDP, which according to international campaign group Tax Justice Network is illegally evaded in 145 countries, covering 98.2% of the world’s population. That’s Ritchie’s report that is. The majority of these flows are washed through tax

Chris Huhne attacked David Cameron for the EU veto in Cabinet back in December. At the time, one Cabinet minister told me that part of Huhne’s critique was that Cameron had scuppered the chances of a Liberal Democrat MEP, Sharon Bowles, being reelected as chair of the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee, which deals with financial services.   But Bowles h...

Propaganda gift for Putin after ex-Blair aide says Moscow’s 2006 allegations that British diplomats used a fake rock to transmit secret data were true

Yesterday in an online Q&A with the Guardian, Conservative MP Maria Miller insisted: "I want to reassure disabled people that if you need support you will continue to get it under PIP [Personal Independence Payments]". I can categorically state that isn't true. I currently qualify for higher rate mobility under DLA but I won't under PIP.