RBS’s award of a £963,000 bonus to Stephen Hester has provoked anger. A chart of stock prices shows one reason why. In the last 12 months, RBS’s share price has underperformed the market; it has also underperformed two of its three main peers – HSBC and Barclays but not Lloyds. Insofar as Hester’s job is

Former prime minister Tony Blair's expenses bill was revealed by The Sunday Telegraph last week to be over £8 million. Sources say a huge amount is spent on foreign travel by him and his team; here we chart just how extensive his travels have been.

Chart source Carbon prices in the EU have set record lows, but first the eight critical questions for climate change proponents! 1. Why can't warming alarmists produce a single legitimate example of empirical evidence to support the manmade global-warming hypothesis? 
 2. Why has Earth been warming for 300 years when man has only emitted measurable amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere for the...

The national census is an important historical record which helps chart change in British life, but has less value as a policy-making tool, MPs are told.

Yes, Germany’s financial sector support was more than the UK’s. So much for concentrating on manufacturing and not being over-whelmed by finance, eh? And the tax loss due to recession? The UK’s being much larger than everyone else’s? Just shows how Brown really, really, should have been running a budget surplus, doesn’t it, as tax

Listening to Ed Miliband's speech today, you'd be left with the impression that the UK is suffering a huge decline in government spending this year, and that this is to blame for most of our economic ills. The facts are a little different, as the below chart shows. The European Commission estimates that the UK is likely to have the second largest growth in government spending of any of t...

Is the United States headed the way of the EU PIIGS, and just how critical and potentially damaging to the forecast equation are the economic assumptions you make? The answer is extremely as we'll see in the following example!Click on blue-shaded Euro area and in the drop-down menu go to US,The map will now show the lines that represent US and Italy levels of government debt as a % of GDP alo...

The Jam were once described as the ‘last great English singles band’. For a group that released such classic chart-toppers as ‘Going Underground’ and ‘Town Called Malice’ that might seem fair enough, but it grievously underestimates their musical canon. The quality of their output on LPs, B-sides and even on recordings that were never released while the band exi...

The battle rages on over the 2nd Amendment right to bear arms in the United States! This list provides the rationale for and against from both sides of the argument (source, click on the chart to make bigger). While this battle will certainly not be resolved right here and now, for those of you who are interested, Ashley will show you how to clean a Glock! H/T Freedom's Phoenix Don't Lea...

Herman Cain – the former CEO of Godfather's pizza – has gone from virtual unknown to frontrunner in a matter of months. In both of the national polls realeased this week, he leads Mitt Romney by four points. Gallup's favourability ratings are a good way of tracking the popularity of the candidates. The chart below provides a pretty good illustration of the race so far. I...