How about this for a new US TV series concept? Divorced former First Lady struggles to keep family together whilst working in the new politically hot job of Secretary of State. Who'd have thought; a former First Lady becoming SecState - the imagination churns! Well, for better or for worse, that is indeed the concept behind USA Network's projected 6-part drama "Political Animals". And yes, they di...

             It was good news to hear confirmed that the USA is not going to make more money available for the Euro. Apparently the US position, as reported again on today’s BBC, is that Euroland needs to sort its own problems out and pay its own bills. As the UK government has said it

Recently Sheffield Hallam student Richard O’Dwyer lost his court case against extradition to the USA for running a website that provided links to websites where users could illegally pirate copyrighted TV material. He will be lodging an appeal with the High Court and he cannot be extradited without the specific permission of the Home Secretary

USA cricket captain Steve Massiah has been arrested, and then had his travelling restricted. Why? According to the arrest warrant, a copy of which is with ESPNcricinfo, Massiah and two other men conspired "to execute a scheme and artifice to defraud a financial institution", listed as Countrywide Home Loans, "and to obtain moneys, funds, credits, assets, securities, or other property owned by and ...

Reading this piece, linked to by Instapundit today, we see that politics in the USA, and in fact everywhere, is a trialogue rather than a dialogue. All parties to the trialogue (definitely including me) believe that the other two camps are wrong, and many in each camp believe that the other two camps are actually one camp. The three camps are: Camp 1: Capitalism is fine, so long as the government ...

This USA Today article annoyed me, but I found it interesting nonetheless. The Pentagon's use of retired generals and admirals as paid advisers has virtually ceased, plummeting from 355 "senior mentors" in 2010 to four today, according to a report released by the Defense Department's inspector general. Requirements to disclose their business ties, a cap on pay of $179,700 per year and li...

The #occupy movement in the USA and the UK is frequently described in the media as being 'anti-capitalist'. But anyone with a cursory knowledge of economics who looks at this dispassionately will tell you this is hogwash. They may not know it or say it, but the #occupy protesters are more 'pro-capitalist' than their critics.

The Turks and their Kurdish brothers have experienced two traumatic and tragic events in the last week. Last Wednesday in Hakkari province near the Iraqi border, the military wing of the PPK killed 24 Turkish troops and injured 18 in a bloodthirsty attempt to nudge the Turkish government to the conference chamber. Unlike in the UK and USA which have regular volunteer armies, the Turkish State...

contribution by Owen Tudor Everyone – regardless of whether they’re involved – has their own explanation of the meaning of this weekend’s 950 worldwide “occupy” protests which have their roots variously in Egypt’s Tahrir Square, Greece’s Syntagma Square, Rothschild Boulevard in Israel and Wall Street in the USA. The prize for breath-taking chutzpah m...

Buffett’s law is an idea gaining traction in the USA, a version of which should be implemented here too. There are remarkably simple solutions, all of which suit the tax simplification agenda.