When the week began, the idea of anyone but Mitt Romney claiming victory in tonight's South Carolina primary seemed fanciful. He had a 10 point lead in the polls, giving him a 90 per cent chance of victory according to Nate Silver's model. Any talk of someone else winning sounded like the wild hopes of a media keen for the nomination battle to go on as long as possible. But no longer. As...

Official Metropolitan police figures contradict Boris Johnson's wild claims on police officer numbers. New research has discovered Boris Johnson's re-election website has falsely claimed there are 722 more police officers operating in London than the latest official figures reported by the Metropolitan Police. The Tory mayor's official campaign website, BackBoris2012.com is currentl...

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. This week's winning essay, Joshuapundit's The Tale Of The Swine is a cautionary tale about...well I think you'll figure it out for yourselves. Here's a slice: Once there was a tribe of wild ...

Once there was a tribe of wild pigs who lived in a remote area of the woods. As anyone who's spent time around pigs will tell you, they are by no means the most unintelligent of animals, and these pigs had learned to adapt quite well to their circumstances. They had fashioned dens and had gradually learned to piece together a tribal law that allowed them to work as a group when necessary to e...

Taylor Dinerman has written a piece for the Hudson Institute on what may be coming in North Korea. I am of two minds. So long as the existing leadership keep up the facade for the rest of the world, the level of palace intrigue can become Roman in its proportions with little effect on the countryside. The key for the North Korean Aristocracy is to do one of the things it does best: keep the...

A rare and beautiful encounter with a tribe of wild mountain gorillas near Bwindi National Park, Uganda. Thanks and a hat tip to longtime Joshua's Army member Joyce C. for sending this my way.

Jon Slattery… Lord Hunt, PCC chairman since October, told Exaro in an interview with David Hencke: “At the moment, it is like the Wild West out there. We need to appoint a sheriff.” His initial plan for online media is to invite bloggers who write on current affairs to volunteer to be regulated by the

The new PCC chairman Lord Hunt has told journalist David Hencke in an interview: “At the moment, it is like the Wild West out there. We need to appoint a sheriff.” That’s right – he’s referring to bloggers. His plan is to invite political bloggers to volunteer for regulation by the PCC’s replacement. Blogs who

It wasn’t always like this. “Our feral economy,” as Murphy calls it, started going wild in the late Eighties. The trigger, according to Matthew Oakeshott, the former Liberal Democrat treasury spokesman in the House of Lords, was the deregulation of the City in 1986; the so-called “Big Bang”. Suddenly, greed was good. Before then, he

As the BBC reports: The former model and singer Sam Fox challenged foreign office minster Jeremy Browne on the Daily Politics about tiger farms in China which she wants to see closed. Mr Browne told her that he would raise the matter with the Chinese. Fewer than 3,500 tigers remain in the wild around the