Senator Rick Santorum's campaign got a major boost in last night's primaries and caucuses,winning decisively in in Colorado, Minnesota and Missouri. In Minnesota's caucuses, Santorum won with 45 percent of the vote. Congressman Ron Paul was in second place with 27 percent and Mitt Romney was third at 17 percent. Santorum beat Romney by 30 percentage points in Missouri, 55 percent to...

The Sun reports a 5 point poll drop for the Conservatives which gives Labour a general election winning lead, were ballot held today. The short term cause of this is the banker and private sector/wealth creation bashing that master RedEd Miliband has been engaging in. You see he's getting the credit because instead of standing against him the Conservatives have tried to pretend they agree. Th...

Thomas Docherty has courted controversy since he was elected as Labour MP for Dunfermline and West Fife in 2010. He certainly has a novel approach to winning friends and influencing people. First of all, he had a go at certain of his fellow MPs whose attire, he felt was too casual for the Commons. Then

Chief says winning a regulatory green light in Brussels, China and South Africa will be time consuming but no more than a ‘legal formality’

In December 1976 Paddy Ashdown put to the local party in Yeovil a plan for winning the constituency for which he had been recently selected and where the party was third at almost every election. Thirty-five and a bit years on, it still reads as a pretty good plan. 1. We should adopt a three-election strategy

Leonard Peltier is a Native American serving his thirty-sixth year in prison. The events that led to arrest and the falsification of evidence used to convict him have long been highlighted by award-winning films like Michael Apted’s ‘Incident at Oglala’ and best-selling books such as Peter Matthiessen’s ‘In the Spirit of Crazy Horse’. Leonard was wrongfully...

Competition to see who can come up with a better caption to the picture below than the one already attached. The winning prize is a pair of free tickets to last year’s FA Cup Final  

Florida Republicans head to vote as Mitt Romney leads in the polls and strikes an upbeat tone about his prospects for winning

Alex Salmond will all but kill off his chances of winning independence if he includes a second 'extra powers' question on the referendum ballot paper, a former First Minister has said.

The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast, and the results are in for the first Watcher's Council match up of 2012, carved eternally in the akhasic records of cyberspace. This week's winning essay, The Mellow Jihadi's Lance Corporal Donald Hogan, Marine Hero is a prime example of the Jihadi's unique literary style as he takes a stirring look at an American hero in and re...