Printing £75bn does not sound like a plan to make us all richer. It sounds like a plan to turn us into Zimbabwe. But last week Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, announced that is exactly what he will be doing. When complete, the Bank’s Quantitative Easing, or QE, programme will have seen £275bn leave the printing presses, nearly £5000 for every person living in ...

Andy Janes has just bought one of these: He paid £1.70. Not bad. But how many pounds will such a thing cost in a few years time? Have a nice weekend....

AMNESTY International's latest report on the lack of education in Zimbabwe's slum areas makes depressing reading but it shouldn't detract from the determination of

Zimbabwe's octogenarian president told in 2008 that the illness could kill him within five years, according to memo released by WikiLeaks

General Solomon Mujuru, the power behind the throne in Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, died in a mysterious fire on one of the many farms he took from white owners in the years following independence. Under the nom de guerre Rex Nhongo, Mujuru was the leader of Mugabe's guerrilla army which fought in the 1970s to end white-minority rule in Rhodesia. Following Zimbabwean independence in 19...

Mark Muller Stuart QC tells our reporter why Zimbabwe is the starting point for an event examining the rule of law globally

Very rarely do people talk about all the interesting things submarines do, except maybe this article. Revelations by prominent British journalist and author Gordon Thomas in his latest book, Inside British Intelligence: 100 Years of MI5 and MI6 , published last year, show Britain's foreign secret intelligence service mounted an operation to thwart the Chinese arms delivery to Zimbabwe in Apri...

Four-year-olds will vote in Zimbabwe's elections later this year if president Robert Mugabe has his way.

A political candidate stands as an Independent on issues of principle during elections in Zimbabwe. Every political dirty trick and smear in the book is usedagainst him during the campaign. At the end of the election count, he is arrested as he leaves the Poll Count Center and taken for interrogation. The international community, with Britain taking the lead, would be in uproar...

I see that the latest Index of Economic Freedom has come out.The UK stands at number 16 in terms of economic freedom with a score of 74.5, down 2.0 points since last year.Out of 183 countries only 13 show a larger drop in economic freedom in the previous twelve months than does the UK. At least our score is better than that of Zimbabwe at 22.1, never mind poor old North Korea with a mighty score