Republic Day is the day India celebrates its Constitution, written 3 years after India obtained its independence. Congratulations to the worlds most populous democracy on its sixty third anniversary! Many more!

Iran, nukes and 40% of the worlds traded supply of crude oil! Fact: The United States receives about 18% of its petroleum imports from the Persian Gulf. A disruption to the flow would be devastating on many different levels! After years of benign neglect that served as the United States foreign and national security policy over Iran's nuclear weapons program it's now that country, and no...

After much self-congratulation amongst safe-sex crusaders on Worlds AIDS Day, Philip Alcabes says their scaremongering was far from a good thing.

Below is a piece from Richard Murphy's indispensable web site Tax research UK, in which he points out a new report by 'Publish what you pay Norway,' claims more than a third of the subsidiaries owned by the worlds major energy and mining companies, including Shell, BP, and Glencore, are based in secrecy jurisdictions where company accounts are not publicly available. In other words ...

It’s the moment of the truth for Britain’s banking sector: the publication of the Vickers report. The headline is as expected: the Commission recommends the imposition of a ringfence on banks' ‘core operations’ (such as consumer deposits and small business lending) from the riskier elements of their business. According to the FT (£), the banks will have discr...

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, told George Osborne yesterday that he should be prepared to change course on his deficit reduction plans if Britain's economic recovery stalls.

The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, told George Osborne yesterday that he should be prepared to change course on his deficit reduction plans if Britain's economic recovery stalls.

Does Jobs deserve kudos for his acumen? Absolutely. That doesn't mean I have to approve of the grotesque beast that is the modern super-corporation. It is something that could only exist in the statist world, and it is a disturbing hybrid of free market principles and ultra-authoritarian government interference, fused together in a way that brings out the very worst of all worlds. - Commenter...

Just a few observations about Dominique Strauss Kahn, firstly what a grubby individual he appears to be, a man who cannot walk past a shop window mannequin without rubbing himself up against it. He is clearly the type of sexual predator who would be an outcast from normal society, but not it seems from the worlds political elites. Even after all that has emerged since his arrest in New York, they ...

Nick destroyer of worlds Davies: Confidential health records for Brown's family have reached the media on two different occasions. In October 2006, the then editor of the Sun, Rebekah Brooks, contacted the Browns to tell them that they had obtained...