Anxious Britons set the standard for obesity, and it's time we did something about it, writes Boris Johnson.

The new Chinese divorce law: Since August 13th, when China’s Supreme People’s Court reinterpreted the country’s marriage law, many of the women leaving marriage registry offices like the one in Chaoyang have more than just the end of their marriages to bemoan. According to the new law, residential property is no longer to be regarded

It bears repeating that banks are not creators of wealth. They are places where you store the surplus value generated by productive enterprise. In very narrow circumstances that surplus value can be loaned out at a profit, but a financial sector is the icing, not the cake. This should be common sense, but apparently it is wisdom so rare it can only be learned in countries small and remote enough t...

Local pensioners are today celebrating the relaunch of the Sotheby Mews Day Centre. Sotheby Mews offers local pensioners a wide range of activities including keep-fit, line dancing, gardening, cake decorating, massage, tai chi, indoor bowls and yoga. It also hosts an extremely popular lunch club which up to 45 older people attend each day. A council-funded bus service collects clients from their h...

Over on his blog Jonathan Calder makes a good point about the speech-making abilities of Liberal Democrat President Tim Farron: My impression of Tim is that he is very good at saying things people agree with. So in Cumbria he is against second homes and in favour of farming subsidies and Kendal mint cake… Now

There are two problems with a Liberal Democrat like myself blogging about Labour Party conference. First, as I’ve so often seen from the other side of the fence, an outside blogging about another party’s conference frequently misreads what is really happening. And second, no blogger can compete with Hopi Sen and his cat. So caveats

He may claim to have saved the economy from collapsing like a souffle, but Alistair Darling's autobiography is being held off the top spot in the book charts by a 'how to' guide about baking the perfect Victoria sponge cake.

Styles of Chinese governance: Wang Yang versus Bo Xilai. Andy Yee has a good summary here. The arguments in general form are obviously familiar, but the thing to remember is that both cases as put are entirely commensurate with Communist...

Former MP Gyles Brandreth recalled how a letter from a constituent spurred him on to bring in a law relaxing rules on where people could marry.

Former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott explained why he stuck his fingers in a BBC cake being offered to celebrate the first anniversary of the coalition government.