It's the halftime coffee break here at the launch of the Institute for Fiscal Studies' Green Budget, so I thought I'd send CoffeeHousers a quick update. But first, just to be clear, that's green meaning green, not green meaning environmental. This is the IFS's annual, different-hued version of the Treasury's Red Book. It's their overall take on the economy and pu...

With increasing numbers of people’s minds turning towards May’s elections, now is a good time to dust off and update a post from 2008 about how people view their council… Improving trust in local government is important, and can’t be done just by focusing on improving services: that’s the verdict of State of trust: How

Ed Balls MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, said in response to the IMF’s World Economic Outlook update:

Every year, Chinese shipyards around the country stops working around Chinese New Year. Since Chinese New Year is less than a week away, we got some last minute photos from the Chinese shipyards. First of all, we see the first two 056 class ships from HuDong shipyard. Now, there is also 056 under construction in HP shipyard, but these ones are more prominent and seem to be further along. There is ...

Spring semester 2012 at the Patterson School is upon us. My Defense Statecraft syllabus more or less done, my Airpower syllabus pretty much done,  podcasts up and running, the blog could use an update, but you go into battle with the website you have, not the website you want et al.  Twenty students in the former course, seven in latter. Ready to c...

This is brilliant. According to the blog "Political Advertising" the Romney team unearthed this piece of comedy gold from an earlier Santorum campaign in 2006. just wondering if he'll maybe try an update for the primary campaign?

An arrest has been made in the NYC Molotov cocktail bias attack against Islamic targets! This is an update to a Monday article that showed a video of an unknown person throwing a Molotov cocktail at a home. Ray Lazier Lengend was charged with arson as a hate crime and four other counts of arson. More on the story at ABC News here. Become a fan of The Political Commentator on Facebook here! Follow ...

Bit of an update on the Sea Shepherds post. First, nix one high speed vessel from the fleet. Having a high speed intercept ship such as Brigitte Bardot or the former Ady Gil in the fleet makes a lot of operational sense, but running a 35 meter trimaran at speed in 6 meter seas, probably doesn’t so much. Second, the post responses on this topic always amaze me. It is interesting how one non-g...

Chief Secretary to the Treasury Danny Alexander is to update MPs on the public sector pensions row, after broad agreements were reached with some unions.

Most eyes will be on the Feltham & Heston Parliamentary by-election, but there are also a handful of council by-elections being held including a double-header in near-by Kingston, where the Liberal Democrats are trying to take two seats off the Conservatives. We will update the site in due course with the results and party reaction,